Images are generally used for new installation or live boot such as
for repair disks. Package managers are best to add, remove, or update
an already installed system. I think whoever started this thread
doesn't understand that you need to use the correct tool for the job you
are trying to accomplish.
If your already installed system doesn't have an editor or a game you
want to use, then the package manager allows you to add it. Redhat uses
the 'rpm' package manager, and other distributions choose different tools.
On 3/4/2022 5:08 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
So it does seem then like appImages are the way to go. It sounds like
we get the absolute best of every possible scenario in this seemingly
antiquated but actually highly innovative portable app technology. Why
oh why do we have people saying that flatpak is the future, or worse,
snapd is the future, when we have appImages that are highly portable,
and can even be sandboxed in much the same way, but are much more
versatile owing to the portability? It's really nice to be able to put
all the appImages I need on a USB drive and just use them on any Linux
computer. I guess the one drawback I can see is the update problem,
where most don't update themselves, but having repositories and
appImage managers available would seem to resolve that issue, also in
a highly portable way.
~Kyle
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