Thoughts on AppManager and Gear Lever?

[MichaelTunnell]

I am curious what the AppImage team's (and community's) thoughts are on both AppManager and Gear Lever.

AppManager = https://github.com/kem-a/AppManager

Gear Lever = https://github.com/mijorus/gearlever

I don't have a preference personally overall but I do like how AppManager does the install style like macOS does because it makes it really transition friendly for Mac users.

[probonopd]

The AppImage file format has been designed so that you can just download a file from the respective applications's download page, make it executable, and run - without the need for package managers, repositories, "installation", and things like that. So while you can use third party tools like the ones you mentioned, I am not interested in them myself.

So I think it's is kinda ironic that while I have designed AppImage specifically not to need these things, there is a seemingly never-ending stream of tools to bolt on package manager/installation like workflows: https://github.com/AppImageCommunity/awesome-appimage#appimage-consumption-tools