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Likewise. And I have my own personal packaging that I use for testing development work - but for production use, when editing videos rather than hacking on the editor, I pretty much always use the AppImages for this one.

There’s a very short list of things I use them for, but this is the poster child for where it’s actually the Best Answer.

In the current release (app image 25.12.2) at least one font seems to be broken

This seems to be some sort of Kubuntu special sauce that’s gone rancid: Ugly serif-like font in interface / UI in Kdenlive (AppImage with Ubuntu / Cinnamon) - #37 by hgdrn

Nobody on any other system is having trouble with this - but Ubuntu in general has always had a talent for being broken in ways that no other distro is.

Are there anywhere instructions on how exactly the app image is built?

It’s built from the CI Craft instance.