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Re:Valve Is Paying Open-Source Developers to Work on Proton,... by 0cf8612b2e1e on Saturday December 17, 2022 @02:43PM (#34031406)
Why AppImage over Flatpack? I like the Flatpack ability to easily restrict network access to binaries. Probably possibly in all of the packaging formats, but limiting permissions feels like a functional piece of Flatpack.
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Re:Valve Is Paying Open-Source Developers to Work on Proton,... by bayindirh on Saturday December 17, 2022 @03:49PM (#34032090)
Because AppImages need no daemons and plumbing. They are self contained binaries which contain everything it needs to run.

Running a big infra to run a single binary once in a while feels like a burden to some of us.

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Re:Valve Is Paying Open-Source Developers to Work on Proton,... by viraptor on Saturday December 17, 2022 @09:36PM (#34034554)
Flatpak also doesn't need daemons beyond what the app is using.
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Re:Valve Is Paying Open-Source Developers to Work on Proton,... by bayindirh on Monday December 19, 2022 @07:17AM (#34051217)
Yet you need to install flatpak package and its dependencies to run flatpak applications. Not to mention the flatpak package contains a four ".service." files, too.

They might not be triggered and launched all the time, but this mode of operation is different from .appimage files, which are just ordinary binary files you directly run.

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