✧✦Catherine✦✧whitequark@treehouse.systems
Jun 28, 2026, 12:57 AM@mcc appimage is basically the same thing but the archive is inside not the outside
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Jun 28, 2026, 1:02 AM@whitequark but it presents as an executable, right? so if double clicked it would presumably run (no idea if it would have, for example, an icon)
- ✧✦Catherine✦✧whitequark@treehouse.systemsJun 28, 2026, 1:02 AM
@mcc yes
some Linux file managers (dolphin) do extract icons from Windows executables (!) these days, not sure about Linux executables
- ✧✦Catherine✦✧whitequark@treehouse.systemsJun 28, 2026, 1:04 AM
@mcc looks like the answer is no and you need "appimaged" (which is kinda stupid) https://askubuntu.com/a/1118922
- ✧✦Catherine✦✧whitequark@treehouse.systemsJun 28, 2026, 1:05 AM
@mcc "appimaged" has this absurd feature list https://github.com/probonopd/go-appimage/blob/master/src/appimaged/README.md
- Jun 28, 2026, 1:06 AM
@whitequark Well… uh…
