• @Niquarl
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    13 years ago

    Thanks for posting this. Didn’t know it existed. Is it basically a game oriented flathub service though?

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      • @librebobOP
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        13 years ago

        Appimage is definitely not better suited.

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          • @librebobOP
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            13 years ago

            Not sure what you mean by AppImage being more widely supported.

            As for why Flatpak is better suited:

            • It has repositories.
            • It supports multiple repositories.
            • It provides appstream data.
            • It supports updates.
            • They are reproducible from flatpak manifests.
            • It’s sandboxed.
            • Sdks and Platforms are shared between flatpaks saving space in the long run.
            • Flatpak has deduplication.

            In comparison AppImage is a very microsoft way of doing things. “Here’s a .exe, put it somewhere and hope it’s not malicious.”

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              • @librebobOP
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                Appimage run everywhere

                As long as your glibc is compatible.

                Getting flatpacks to run on a Linux distribution that is not explicitly supporting them is quite a hassle.

                I’d struggle to think of a distribution that wouldn’t work (https://flatpak.org/setup/). Anyways at that point you’d be lucky to have video drivers anyway so games are probably not an interest. And someone on a distribution like that wouldn’t be unfamiliar with a bit of hassle compiling software.

                There are also systems to provide repositories for appimages (and various update mechanisms)

                Yeah, systems that almost no appimage implements. Welcome to version hell.

                Flatpacks are over-engineered and especially when it comes to games have all sorts of edge-cases that severely degrade the experience of players.

                I disagree.

                Last but not least, no amount of sand-boxing is going to solve the problem that such an auto-updater

                Flatpak does not auto update. Gnome software auto updates (and can be told not to).

                But this is better dealt with at the repository server level with strict checks of what can be included or not (f-droid like).

                Which flatpak can provide. It seems most of your issues might be with flathub, not flatpak.