• Flatfire@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    I think they were getting at Flatpaks, Snaps or AppImages (my personal favourite)

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      18 hours ago

      Why do you prefer them to flatpaks? Genuinely curious. I’ve only used appimages once or twice.

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        15 hours ago

        They’re portable and don’t require that I install anything. If I’m looking for an odd tool, it’s usually the easiest way to download and test something out. It’s just nice to have a standalone executable.

        Flatpaks are fine, I really have no problem with them in theory but I spend twice as long configuring them as I do with a native program, and I have to trust that the maintainer is affiliated with the project, which isn’t always the case.