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Not that it's bad. For me, it's actually very useful, I just find it mildly amusing that an app for managing AppImages is packaged as a Flatpak, despite the two formats being widely known as competitors*.

* Okay, most people (including me) would say that the two formats are for different use cases and aren't directly competitors, but for the eyes of a lot of AppImage purists and Flatpak critics, they are.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What's off? It's an app for managing appimages that is hosted on flathub. Just because it is a flatpak does not mean it can't manage appimages

edit: a word

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

At the same time, it's like a Ford executive driving a Chevy. It looks wrong.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

More like a train conductor driving a car between their home and work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Knew a Porsche employee whose company car was a Beemer, so maybe it's not quite as rare as you think?