When Topaz Video AI gets a full Linux release, could there be an AppImage version made up? I’m not sure how feasible that is. So far, I still can’t install Topaz on Linux due to some libraries being older than what is expected (I’m on Zorin OS 16.3) and I’m unable to update them.
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Could be a good idea, I never liked appimages myself but they’d be good to get running on different distros. I use Arch/manjaro for almost everything but my Topaz PC is dedicated so I don’t really care about running Ubuntu on it as long as I can keep Windows off of it.
There definitely needs to be something as were a small niche and I don’t think you can assume were all using Ubuntu.
I’m the other end of the spectrum on Fedora so tend to have the latest software versions, which is just as much a problem.
Nobody is “assuming” anyone is Using Ubuntu. I don’t use Ubuntu except on my TVAI box, specifically for this reason. And being that it’s only real purpose is TVAI, running Ubuntu on it doesn’t bother me one bit. If I really wanted to run it on Arch I would make a PKGBUILD for it.
A deb is just an archive file with an install script. Most distros have tools to install deb files. Not sure how well they work but it can’t be too hard to write a distro specific install script as TVAI is mostly self contained anyway. If you’re “Linux guys” you should be pretty used to having to do a bit of work yourself.
Personally I think Appimages suck, but if they want to package an appimage alongside the deb at some point that’s fine with me, just don’t stop providing the deb as well. Ideally users would maintain distro specific scripts as is done with almost any other program in this situation.
