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AppImage isn't truly cross distribution in the first place because how it handles dependencies is not truly portable.

I mean yeah, it doesn't aim to be a "cross-platform compilation/building system" so of course dependencies is up to you to solve, AFAIK AppImage only aims to solve packaging itself, not what goes into that package.

Which doesn't solve the same problem that Flatpak solves, namely having a package format that a developer can target and it run the same everywhere.

Its as portable as you make it, just like with binaries in .tar.gz archives or shar installers.

Errbody seems to use AppImage anyway

God I wish.

Looking at you, DaVinci Resolve.

I'm not sure how AppImage beats Flathub, it's gotten so damn good.

I'm not sure even that works; does appimage work on musl distros?