My biggest issue with YAY is the occasional mandatory compiling of an app seemingly randomly, so I go in thinking a quick update will turn into a much slower one because of the compiling it does. I haven’t looked into it, but if there was a way to alert before doing this via a flag, it’d save me time and sometimes frustration.
I have learned over the years to try to install the -bin version as much as possible, but sometimes that’s not enough if flagged out of date (Joplin especially), so I sometimes end up installing the appimage.
I’ve dabbled in it, but not really committed to it. It’s a great lightweight server of course. I am a KDE Plasma user so I did a quick test of that and was able to install it via Alpine, but at the time, the support for
javaws
was not there which I needed at the time for my job, so that killed my plans on using it. I may venture back to it later on .