supermariowar VS AppImageUpdate

Github: https://github.com/mmatyas/supermariowar

there are several developers that have bundled wine as an AppImage, my favourite one is this , about GZDoom I've just downloaded the tar package and it seems to be an Electron based app, so it should not difficult to bundle it (see my Spotify for example), and supermariowar should be easier too.

Is smwstuff.net safe? I wanted to download Super Mario War, but Chrome says the site isn't safe. What should I do?

Super Mario War

For Super Mario War I created a text file to run the game from the terminal since shared libraries can be run that way but file managers won't do it, not that can't be added as a feature.

There's an updater for appimages https://github.com/AppImageCommunity/AppImageUpdate

AppImages can contain update information (and even support partial updates using zsync), check out https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageUpdate.

https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageUpdate this only works if the application has information regarding where to fetch the update from...

It would be very nice and handy if we could easily update Tutanota Linux desktop app. Luckily, since it is packaged as an AppImage, there's an easy-to-integrate utility available just for that.

It's not centralised, not like Snap with SnapCraft, not even like Flatpak with it's 'not technically but kinda is in practice' Flathub repository. Anyone can make an AppImage, anyone can host an AppImage, anyone can download and run an AppImage, anyone can implement AppImage integration in a distro, and there's even a nice system for automatic updates for AppImage which again is nicely decentralised.

Some have built-in. some not. Btw I considered AppImageUpdate , but it would become re-install a full new app

The fact is that the delta update system via Zsync and appimageupdatetool are real solutions to the problem, but too many developers do not implement it in their AppImage, myself included.

Btw, regarding Flatpak, I've had multiple issues related to mouse cursor, fonts, and local folder access - all related to the sandboxing of apps, all resolvable, but potentially a problem for a non-technical user. I've had much better experiences with AppImages, but I don't know if they have a graphical app store like interface; even the AppImageUpdate idea is still catching on.