AppImage is by definition, the true portable application format in Linux. You don’t have to install any runtime, dependency, etc. All you need to do is download the package, make it executable, and you will have a portable, functional application you can use on you Linux OS.

You might don’t know, AppImage has had long history as a portable app format in Linux. It started from 2004 named klik, then renamed to PortableLinuxApps and later, until now, renamed again as AppImage.

Unlike the predecessor, AppImage now gets a fair amount of attentions from Linux users. Some even said that Linus Torvalds himself think that AppImage isn’t a bad idea. The point is, if we are talking a app format that works just like how EXE works in Windows, AppImage is the answer.

Running AppImage on an Old Linux OS

I have a bunch of Linux isos, from older to the newest version. The main reason I don’t remove them is each Linux version