FOSDEM ‘23 - I was wrong about Flatpak, AppImage, and Snap

• flatpak

  431 4,055 9.2 C

  Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework

  

Yes, you're supposed to only get 1 version, but due to this long standing bug, Flatpak isn't marking Nvidia drivers correctly, so you end up with 10 versions that want to be updated, totaling 3 Gigabyte for every goshdarn update.

• obs-studio

  2,361 55,593 9.8 C

  OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording

  

True. But I think they're not the only one who has had a not-so-good experience interacting with the AppImage team. For example, this pull request blew up for all the wrong reasons last year.

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• AppImageKit

  133 8,447 2.9 C

  Package desktop applications as AppImages that run on common Linux-based operating systems, such as RHEL, CentOS, openSUSE, SLED, Ubuntu, Fedora, debian and derivatives. Join #AppImage on irc.libera.chat

  

I look forward to watching the FOSDEM talk this weekend, so perhaps getting ahead of myself. But I'm curious whether you think the move in appimage toward static linking would solve some of the hairy issues you pointed out? For example: https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/issues/1193 and https://github.com/probonopd/go-appimage/

• go-appimage

  17 638 6.2 Go

  Go implementation of AppImage tools

I look forward to watching the FOSDEM talk this weekend, so perhaps getting ahead of myself. But I'm curious whether you think the move in appimage toward static linking would solve some of the hairy issues you pointed out? For example: https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/issues/1193 and https://github.com/probonopd/go-appimage/

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