AppImages don't go in Discover with all my other programs. They don't auto update, no review system, no way to cleanup the files they created when uninstalling, I have to manually add shortcuts to my app launcher. Also Flatseal is pretty cool.

I've tried Gear Lever, but in my experience it hasn't ever succeeded in updating an AppImage for me. And it's kind of awkward giving it an AppImage file so it can move the file, instead of the download and the installation being the same single action.

One thing a lot of people don't know about Flatpak is that you can get .flatpakref files like Kdenlive uses for their daily builds. Very cool!

https://cdn.kde.org/flatpak/kdenlive-nightly/org.kde.kdenlive.flatpakref

https://kdenlive.org/download/

[–] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

How do you know an update has been released? How do you upgrade it?

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Gear Lever?

[–] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's interesting, so it requires flatpak to install, but why would you when you already use flatpak?

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To use App Images! :D

[–] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

For when the devs provide app image but not flatpak or are app images somehow better?

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

That or if you're running an immutable distro like Bazzite and there's an app image available because it's easier than setting up OS-tree layering etc.

Or you just want an easy way to update app images lol

[–] dreamy@quokk.au 2 points 1 month ago

Use AppImageLauncher or Gear Lever.