On Sunday 19 May 2024 18.21:47 dep via tde-users wrote:
As I said, it seems ceteris paribus better than flatpak, though I could be wrong.
I confess having no knowledge of the internas of all these. I tend to prefer installing from teh repositories, but Appimages and Flatpak solve some dependency problems, and I have the (wrong?) feeling teht installing them does not "polute" my distribution.
I rely on OpenBoard for example at work. These is (was?) a package for Ubuntu, that would not install on Debian (as often). They don't have appimage, but Flatpak works great. The Prusa Slicer commes as Appimage and works too.
So I'm a little like Japanese with Bhudism and Shinto: I use one or the other depending on my needs at the moment...
There's a third sort of such things, snap, but it requires systemd, seems, and I'm not running it so...