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Realm Studio
https://realm.io/products/realm-studio/
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Consider using another installation way on Linux #976

Open navarroaxel opened 5 years ago

navarroaxel commented 5 years ago

Hi

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. The AppImage has a bad UX about installation. I don't like use it. Download it, change to executable, and it could be modified by a malware if the user don't change the owner to root and it's not user friendly for newer linux users.

Describe the solution you'd like Could you release the Linux version using snap like Jetbrains, Slack or Spotify? You could be a verified publisher and it can be used on several Linux distributions, also you can have an edge channel for beta releases if you want. And Ubuntu has a really good integration with it.

Describe alternatives you've considered Or maybe a deb format? With a deb format is more easy integrate realm-studio to AUR packages in Arch Linux, or convert to any other format, it could be used by snapcrafters to build a snap package.

Thanks!

kraenhansen commented 5 years ago

It looks like another user also prefers snap https://github.com/realm/realm-studio/issues/971#issuecomment-436289931. It doesn't seem that difficult to add.

nmabhinandan commented 5 years ago

Add this to snap store. It's a well reputed way of delivering developer tools for linux and Visual Studio Code, Intellij Idea etc are also using it.