AppImages are great: a single runtime containing all of the dependencies needed for an app to run in a double-click binary that can be run from anywhere on your system. And therein lies the rub. When I download an AppImage for software like Audacity, Kdenlive, etc., it’s usually to my Downloads folder, or sat on a USB stick or external SSD. To run it, I need to navigate to the folder, right-click on the binary, give it permission to run, then double-click on it to run. And if I don’t manually create a .desktop file for the AppImage it won’t […]
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