Are AppImages a generel security risk?
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April 15, 2026
seize:
As far as I can tell, no Cryptomator does not use fuse2 on Linux, and requires fuse3 instead.
Reference: Volume Types | Cryptomator Documentation
Linux-Based OS
FUSE
Requirements: Linux,
fuse3installedFUSE on Linux works only if the
fuse3package is installed. Luckily,fuse3comes pre-installed on many Linux distributions.Note: this requirement is separate from the appimage requirement for fuse2 to be installed.
any1:
seize:
unmaintained fuse2 library
The newer appimage runtime does not use fuse2 anymore.
So does the Cryptomator .AppImage use outdated libraries or not?
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