AppManager makes AppImages easier to install and use on Ubuntu

AppImages are designed to be simple. Download one, make it executable and run it. On Ubuntu, though, there’s an extra step: Ubuntu ships FUSE 3 by default, but many AppImages still rely on FUSE 2, so one has to install libfuse2t64 first. Not so with AppManager, a new(ish) GTK4/Libadwaita app. It fixes that particular annoyance by mounting AppImages through uruntime, replacing the standard AppImage runtime so apps can launch without you needing to install the libfuse2t64 package. It also handles regular SquashFS-packed AppImages, as well as the newer DwarFS-packed ones. Once the manager is installed, you can double-click an.AppImage file – no longer needing

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