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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 mean, how can you beat something which
> requires nothing more than for you to make it executable?

https://github.com/probonopd/go-appimage/blob/master/src/appimaged/
README.md

appimaged is handy as it will search for AppImages, extract the icons, and 
have them show up on menus and taskbars.