i think the reason appimage didn't catch on is because it worked too well and Linux users need their system to be a little bit broken at any given point
@mavica_again average linux power user runs a sudo apt upgrade in the morning and gets more and more panicked for every minute there are no broken packages or missing dependencies
@mavica_again Honestly if you combined appimage with a clone of Mac's Launch Services that keeps track of the apps and manages their .desktop files, that'd be really nice!
appimaged is sorta like that but not exactly, it also wants to move all your apps into one folder and stuff.