I noticed the AppOutlet repo has been archived, but I really liked the idea of one store to rule them all (I.e. snaps, appimages, flatpaks, etc. in one place).
KDE Discover supports Snap, Flatpak and distro packages (through PackageKit). It doesn’t support AppImage, though. It also doesn’t work very well outside of Plasma.
I like the integration with Timeshift and the into packed interface with ability to click on details. On the downside, the themes are limited and it’s kind of hard to use for browsing apps that you might want to install.
You won’t find any alternatives because Flatpak has won the war. Pretty much everyone (except Canonical) hates Snap and avoids it like the plague, and AppImages have significantly dropped in popularity amongst users due to the rise of Flatpak, and the various advantage it has over AppImages. So you’re left with only Flatpak/Flathub basically.
Thanks for the suggestion. After getting some weird behavior with Appimage Launcher and reading this reddit thread, I decided to install pamac-flatpak from the AUR, but plan on leaving AUR dissabled on the app. So far so good. I think it’s a keeper.
Ah yes, the most misused xkcd. AppOutlet isn’t a new standard. It’s a frontend which attempts to support all of the existing standards. There is no special AppOutlet package format or repository. It’s simply an application that can install Snaps, AppImages and Flatpaks, which you would be installing anyway through other means.
This is like looking at VLC’s support for dozens of multimedia formats and calling it a new standard. VLC isn’t a multimedia format, it’s a multimedia player. It implements the existing multimedia standards, it isn’t itself supposed to be one.
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