Why I Shipped a Linux Desktop App as an AppImage (and Skipped Snap/Flatpak)

The author chose AppImage as the sole distribution format for their Tauri-based Linux desktop app OpenChat, because it offers cross-distro compatibility with minimal maintenance overhead. Snap was abandoned due to excessive time spent on sandbox and portal issues, while Flatpak failed due to GLIBC mismatch problems between build targets and runtimes.