> Which is a bit annoying, as I don't really know what to do with AppImages.

They're self-contained. You make them executable and run them. Store them in /use/local/bin or wherever you want.

I'd rather they just distribute a tarball. If I am going to be pissing around copying files around just have tarball download. I ended up downloading from source and compiling. I've had to do this unfortunately with a lot of quasi open source projects.