If you have to choose between using an App Image, from the developpers official site or an AUR package (or apt e.g), what do you choose?
If you have to choose between using an App Image, from the developpers official site or an AUR package (or apt e.g), what do you choose?
With the AUR, there is an “it depends” since AUR packages are unofficial and variable in quality.
That said, I have a strong bias for installing the distro package over using AppImage or Flatpak.
There are three reasons not to use the distro package:
My #1 reason for using Arch is to eliminate 1 and 2. In my experience, the AUR is almost always fine for #3.
Even when I use another distro, I put Distrobox with Arch on it and get any of the packages that the distro does not have from there.
The only Flatpak I have had to install has been pgAdmin.
I enjoy CachyOS distro packages for this reason. Eliminated all three in one fell swoop. Very few packages I’ve had to go outside of their ecosystem for.
Same