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The best launcher you can get for AppImages is to just drop the thing and move to Flatpaks that don't take 2 seconds to launch apps.
Some apps are only available as appimages.
Neverthrless you should ask the maintainer and work towards flatpaks.
As someone who tried to maintain a large application flatpak I would say it’s pain in the ass to work with and things break often. The way it’s configured and how permissions are set needs to be simplified.
Have you tried nix? I wonder if it works better.
Looking at you Bitwarden.
Appimage and snap. Why no flatpak?
There is a flatpak, but I’m pretty sure it’s a community version.
I know why. They're most likely running into this scenario as well.
Fair enough. :P
Yeah I know, I was just joking around, still AppImages are annoying.
Wait why is appimage bad
It’s not. These are opinions. Snap on the other hand… THAT is bad.
I can agree with that
From the "universal package formats" that's the one I've had issues with when using it on a distro not specifically mentioned to work, it was supposed to be universal! Though not sure if that's an issue with whoever packaged the app or anything specific with AppImage. Poor experience anyway.
Also no repo model. I like package manager to deal with shit. We have sorta solutions for that but not quite like snaps and flatpaks.
Also the dependencies stuff is weird. They advice you to think of the oldest (LTS?) distro you think the app will be used on and use deps compatible with that one. Which just seems, I dunno, icky, for lack of better word.
But for a random one-off app, I think it's fine. I prefer flatpak but it's fine, I wouldn't avoid it or anything.
Ah ok. That makes sense. Thank you for taking the time to write out a long reply
It's not.
Performance... or lack of it. Overhead.