Why are there so many ways to install software on Linux and why doesn't everyone just use AppImages?
Why are there so many ways to install software on Linux and why doesn't everyone just use AppImages?
Christian Cook
Ayden Wilson
Mason Cox
In the case of snap it was to fuck people over and lock them
Jose Myers
>why doesn't everyone just use AppImages?
Then how would you update? By replacing every appimage files?
Meanwhile you can just use apt upgrade and get the stuff done.
Asher Rodriguez
>why doesn't everyone just use AppImages?
Because it doesn't work.
Jace Butler
the fact that you placed pacman 2 tiers above portage proves that you indeed are a faggot.
Connor Harris
AppImage doesnt really solve any problem. AppImages have the exact same problem as regular binaries. For AppImages to work properly, you have to compile your software for a very old glibc version (AppImage devs recommend using a very old centos version) and they you have to manually copy .so files into the AppImage. At this point it will still depend on system glibc, opengl etc.
If you dont do this and just try to make an AppImage on arch for example then ubuntu users wont be able to run it because they may be using an older glibc version.
Nicholas Myers
What the fuck is glibc's problem and why is that shit always changing? I can't run Waterfox on an LTS version of my work Ubuntu computer because it requires some newer version of glibc. What, was it SO important to change the order of the variables in the function signatures of some string manipulation function?
Logan Jenkins
>Then how would you update? By replacing every appimage files?
There is nothing stopping an appimage from self-updating
Julian Rogers
>You will know the shill tranny by his mark