Recently I was informed that Blackmagic Design is using AppImage to distribute Fusion for Linux. So I had a look, and what I found is rather surprising. They hide the fact that they are using AppImage (using .run
rather than .AppImage
as an extension), and they do not make use of it advantages because they a) encapsulate it in an archive, making unarchiving necessary, and b) run an installer. So they throw away two advantages of AppImages: a) that they do not need to be unpacked, and b) that they do not need to be installed.
What the heck?!
I am doing this analyis on Ubuntu 16.04.