If you have to choose between using an App Image, from the developpers official site or an AUR package (or apt e.g), what do you choose?
If you have to choose between using an App Image, from the developpers official site or an AUR package (or apt e.g), what do you choose?
AppImage. Because it has portable config feature
Don’t all apps have that? Just throw your dotfiles on GitHub
It does not only make config can be stored but can also be used on other drives
I don’t see the use-case for this that couldn’t be handled by syncthing, rclone, github, or whatever offline storage you’re using for backups. I think I’m missing something…
Yes, you’re missing something. AppImage’s portable config feature can also make you use your config on other drive. You don’t need to symlink your config to ~/.config. you can use your config directly on your other drive
Yeah, but why would I want to do that? I don’t understand what problem this is solving…
The benefit is that I can save a fraction of a second by not having to symlink a config file… At the cost of having to use a bloated app system?
AppImage’s portable config feature is very useful if you use live usb, and AppImage’s portable config feature makes your ~/ clean from scattered application configs
Ah ok, now that makes a bit more sense. Yeah, I guess for the sake of app portability, appimages and the like do make a lot of sense.