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Subject: Re: Hobbyware WinCrap 11 strikes again
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 06:38:25 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-02-12, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
> On 2025-02-11 7:33 p.m., Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 08:51:59 -0500, CrudeSausage wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm not sure why they bothered making Flatpaks and Snaps when AppImages
>>> work pretty much everywhere.
>> 
>> I don’t understand the point of any of them. They seem like attempts to
>> retrofit something that looks like MSI (only slightly better designed)
>> onto the Linux ecosystem. Why? Clearly it is to woo the proprietary
>> software developers -- the ones who don’t want to release their source
>> code to let the distro maintainers worry about packaging.
>> 
>> The downside is that each SnapImage/FlatApp/whatever has to carry around
>> all its dependencies with it, instead of being able to share dependencies
>> through the package system. The idea that developers, particularly
>> proprietary developers, can do a better job of keeping these dependencies
>> up to date than the distro maintainers (whose job it is to do just that),
>> just seems laughable.
>
> On the one hand, the fact that they carry all their dependencies ensures 
> that the application always works as intended. On the other hand, those 
> programs end up being much larger than you would want neutralizing one 
> of Linux's greatest benefits.

AppImages are really useful for something like the Scrivener Linux Beta. 
Development was dropped years ago, and Scrivener Beta required older 
dependencies that don't exist any more. So, since there is an AppImage, 
which includes the dependencies, Scrivener can still be run on Linux where 
it would have otherwise been long ago dead.

https://www.pling.com/p/1673680/

I just get the one with all the language packs (about 94 MBs). Although I 
don't use Scrivener, there are a lot of people do. This will also work under 
Linux in Chromebooks.

-- 
“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy 
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”  —J.R.R. Tolkien