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[–] KryptonNerd@slrpnk.net 67 points 2 days ago (36 children)

Because it's nice for devs to have a single package type to build per OS

[–] gworl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 2 days ago (23 children)

Why can’t they do that already? Just choose whichever one you want it’s trivial for me to run whichever as a user

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Recently I wanted to uninstall $thing. Couldn’t via the package manager. I had forgotten that it wasn’t a native package. So what was it? *scratches head* Flatpak, snap or Appimage? Aw damn, it’s an AppImage. Now where did I put the binary? *scratches head*.

[–] gworl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 days ago

Uhh…should probably get yourself in order because that sounds like a you problem to be completely honest

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