Appimages totally suck, because many developers think they were a real packaging format and support them exclusively.
Their use case is tiny, and in 99% of cases Flatpak is just better.
I could not find a single post or article about all the problems they have, so I wrote this.
This is not about shaming open source contributors. But Appimages are obviously broken, pretty badly maintained, while organizations/companies like Balena, Nextcloud etc. don’t seem to get that.
Flatpack puts all app data in
~/.var?? Ewww! No thanks.not sure about the path, you should check flatpak’s docs for more accurate informations
but i believe so, yeah
on one had it’s a shame they’re not using xdg dirs, but on the other, i kinda get why – it’s neither config files, nor just data – it’s both, it’s a container