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Appimage for me ticks all the boxes for cross distro package as its very portable, simple to run, what are devs trying to do when creating snaps and flatpack?

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[–] people_are_cute@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The best of them all, αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε.

Build once, run natively on literally any PC OS including Windows and MacOS!

[–] Squid@leminal.space 5 points 11 months ago

Interesting read, love stuff like this but it seems they'd be a lot of dev overhead to truly make something large and agnostic but still gotta commend it!