LinuxDoors AppImage Store
| LinuxDoors AppImage Store | |
|---|---|
| Type of site | Software distribution |
| Part of | LinuxDoors.com |
| Operated by | Stan Switaj |
| URL | linuxdoors.com/appimages_store |
| Format | AppImage |
| Applications | 6 |
| Launched | 2026 |
| Current status | Active |
The LinuxDoors AppImage Store is a curated collection of AppImage applications published as part of LinuxDoors.com, the website of the Linux distribution developed by Stan Switaj. Each entry is a single self-contained executable that carries the whole application and the runtime it needs, so it is downloaded, marked executable and run, with nothing to install and nothing left behind. Because an AppImage is not tied to a distribution's package system, the applications listed also run on Debian, Ubuntu and other Linux systems that can launch one.
The store is distinct from the main LinuxDoors package browser, which serves the distribution's own 525 compiled packages: the package browser installs software into a LinuxDoors system, while the store hands over one portable file.
Catalogue
Six applications are listed. Each entry names its maker, states its origin, gives its size and publishes a SHA-256 checksum of the exact file offered:
- FlashScp — a two-pane file transfer program that copies with scp over an SSH connection in the manner of FlashFXP, written by Stan Switaj and free. About 50 MB.
- LinuxUltraOffice — the LibreOffice-derived productivity suite of LinuxUltraOffice.com, the store's only priced item at $9.99. About 280 MB.
- Kate — the KDE community's advanced text editor, multi-document and project-aware, with a language-server client and a built-in terminal. About 228 MB.
- Kdenlive — KDE's non-linear video editor, a multi-track timeline built on MLT and FFmpeg. About 215 MB.
- OpenShot — a non-linear video editor for trimming, arranging, titling and exporting, with a native timeline. About 445 MB.
- GIMP — the GNU Image Manipulation Program, a full raster editor for photograph work, painting and design. About 331 MB.
The listing can be filtered by maker — the makers represented are the KDE Community, LinuxDoors, Stan Switaj, the GIMP development team and the OpenShot development team — and by price, and sorted by a featured order, alphabetically, by downloads, by age or by size. A search box covers the same set.
Provenance
The store distinguishes carefully between three kinds of entry, and says which each one is on its own card.
LinuxDoors originals are the project's own applications; FlashScp is one, and its published checksum is described as authoritative because LinuxDoors built the file.
Mirrored entries are upstream builds served unchanged. Kate and Kdenlive are pulled straight from KDE's own continuous-integration build server and offered exactly as KDE produced them, with the checksum published so that a downloader can confirm it matches KDE's. The store states plainly that LinuxDoors neither built nor modified them, names the upstream project as the authoritative home for the software, its source, its handbook and its issue tracker, and links there from the card for anyone who would rather download from the project directly.
Packaged entries are upstream free software, unmodified, that LinuxDoors has itself assembled into an AppImage. OpenShot is the worked example: the application and its supporting libraries are bundled together with a Python runtime, Qt 6, PySide6 and FFmpeg into one self-contained file, with the store noting that the software is the OpenShot team's work and that only the packaging is LinuxDoors'. The checksum is authoritative for the file LinuxDoors built rather than for anything upstream publishes.
Every card carries a link to the application's official site, so the store never presents itself as the origin of software it did not write.
Pricing
The store publishes a short statement of its pricing principle, headed Open code, fair pay. Source code remains open — free to read, build on and share — and a price, where one is charged, is explicitly not for the code. It is described as payment for the work around it: the servers and bandwidth that carry the download, and the time a programmer spent designing, building, testing and maintaining the application. The statement adds that a share of what the paid applications earn is returned to the Linux and free software projects they are built on, and that anything marked $0.00 is free without qualification.
Five of the six applications are free. The single priced item, LinuxUltraOffice, is sold on an honour system, with payment sent to the programmer by cheque or money order rather than collected at download; the file is served regardless.
Running an AppImage on LinuxDoors
The store documents a practical wrinkle of its own distribution. LinuxDoors' kernel is built without FUSE, so an AppImage cannot mount itself and instead unpacks before it starts; and because the temporary directory is cleared at every reboot, a launcher pointing straight at the file would re-unpack the whole application on the first run after each boot — several seconds during which nothing appears on screen, which reads as a shortcut that did not work.
LinuxDoors therefore ships a runner, linuxdoors-run-appimage, present on every installation, which unpacks into a persistent cache in the user's home directory instead. Each AppImage is unpacked once, every later launch is immediate, and the one slow first run displays a notification saying that it is unpacking. Running an AppImage directly still works; the runner is offered as the friendlier path for a desktop shortcut.
Recommended layout
Alongside the catalogue the store sets out what it describes as Stan Switaj's own recommendation for keeping AppImages tidy on a per-user basis: every AppImage a user keeps lives in a single folder in their home directory; that folder holds exactly one subfolder, for icons, with each application's icon stored there as a PNG; and each application gets a desktop launcher whose command calls the LinuxDoors runner and whose icon points at the matching PNG, so the desktop shows a real, recognisable icon rather than a generic one.
See also
External links
- LinuxDoors AppImage Store
- LinuxDoors.com — the distribution's website
