Re: AppImage support (Re: Signal-desktop stopped working on Tumbleweed)

Andrei Borzenkov <[email protected]> Thu, 2 Jul 2026 11:11:25 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.general
Message-ID <CAA91j0W6hgA5nXXpFVyxnuzXH_Y4re2svG4r3r6=MrG=xa1yoQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jul 2, 2026 at 9:47 AM Wolfgang Rosenauer
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Is openSUSE really that bad in supporting AppImage or do I miss something?
> I used to use appimaged which somewhat worked in the past but some time
> ago it stopped working just crashing immediately (like hundreds of times
> per minute).
>

AppImages are not self contained. They often depend on external
libraries and have some assumptions about their versions. In the best
case AppImage simply does not start, in the worst case you get
undefined behavior.

Containers with a full environment may be a better choice.