I update my system often and believe it or not reboot more than once every couple years ;) I’m clueless about all these details I just know from a user perspective I had some annoyances and breakages.

I am not familiar with AppManager at all.

You likely ran an outdated version of appimagelauncher

I’m just curious how you think this would have happened. Did I install it, not use it for months, never update my system, then start using it?

I am not sure it matters why or what issues I had, but I had a few, enough to look for an alternative. In fact my experience with AIL is part of the reason I avoid appImages. They just don’t seem to work well in my experience. In any case you were dismissive in your first message and really negative about software that works fine for me, citing reasons that don’t seem relevant to my use case, about details that never seemed to impact me. I just know I tried to use AIL for a couple of years and had issues multiple times, the last time resulting in breaking an app. So I stopped using it.

All I know is appImageLauncher gave me a lot of issues so as soon as I found an alternative I tried it and haven’t had an issue yet.

Edit: apparently having an experience gets a downvote. Pretty whiny and weird thing to do.

Okay, well gear lever lets you add command line arguments which get saved in the config so that should work easily. I will say it’s odd to me that you say this is needed for a specific OS, let alone often. I have never used that flag and I’ve been using an Ubuntu variant for ~5 years now. Doesn’t mean you’re wrong or anything, I’m just surprised because that seems to defeat one of the main purposes of appImages. The whole security/safety model seems to be sidestepped if you use that flag. I tend to only use appImage if it’s my only option because flatpaks seem to work better in my experience.

I have never used that flag. Does that just enable full system access without the usual layer of sandbox protection?

GearLever works better

Think of him what you want,

Will do. He keeps damaging the reputation of the only real alternative to windows and he might be getting paid by Microsoft to do it. The last time he did this was fucking absurd. The terminal basically told him not to type a command unless he absolutely knew well what he was doing and he did it anyway. I will always maintain that if a user reads a lengthy and terrifying warning and then proceeds without any research, they have invited data and OS loss.

Lemme guess, he runs into a very minor snag and then runs rm -rf -no-preserve-root / because ThAtS hOw NoRmAl UsErS wOuLd Do ThInGs.

I’m no statistician but this seems within margin of error to me.

Literally no indication of that

Absolutely gorgeous.

I did, twice

You’re the only user catching downvotes

Because I wanted an OS that conforms to some standards, gives me freedom, and doesn’t give my data to a corporation

There are a lot of smart answers in here, but personally I wouldn’t risk it by using a compressed archive. Disk space is cheap.

You saying they’re a bot?

Was there a precursor to proton integrated with steam? I would’ve sworn my friends were bringing this up in like 2016 or 2017 and describing it as a special version of wine for games that valve made

Yeah, it’s default on pop os. Cannot remember if I tried Wayland, just going with the flow and it works for now

I wish PlexAmp did this so I could recommend it

My parents essentially voted against me having a job and don’t ever ask about my situation now which is precarious. Went from retiring safely to career in peril. Just one of many reasons why I agree with you.