[GoLUG] [GTALUG] Status of Debian and derivatives, or flatpak/appimage/snap discussion redux

[syeedali at syeedali.com]

On 2025-11-28 15:31, Wayne wrote:
> There's also AppImage which carries the required dependencies with it 
> and doesn't require other built-in modules like Flatpak or Snap do. For 
> example, the image manipulation application GIMP is available as a 
> single AppImage file at gimp.org. and the latest version runs without 
> any other dependencies on even 'older' hardware or OSs. I've been using 
> that and dozens of other AppImages for years with great success. 
> They're a good way to run the latest version of something on older 
> hardware.

I thought that software bundled like that would use old dependencies 
with known security flaws.