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minus-squareElectroLisa@piefed.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·16 days agoWhat’s wrong with Flatpak?
minus-squareoni ᓚᘏᗢ@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·16 days agoWith flatpak I feel like I’m installing a new entire enviroment for every app I’m installing
minus-squareTurret3857@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·edit-216 days agoIt only installs dependencies once. If you install 10 libadwaita apps or 10 KDE apps, you only get 1 copy of libadwaita or KDE framework.
minus-squareSamueru_sama@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·16 days agoflatpak still ends up using +4x times the storage equivalent of appimage, comparison with flatpak dedup checker for ~20 common GUI apps: And btw I need to update this comparison, a lot of the appimages on the right got a lot smaller lately. The flatpak runtimes are huge, the GNOME runtime alone is over 2 GiB so that’s +20 appimages.
What’s wrong with Flatpak?
With flatpak I feel like I’m installing a new entire enviroment for every app I’m installing
It only installs dependencies once. If you install 10 libadwaita apps or 10 KDE apps, you only get 1 copy of libadwaita or KDE framework.
flatpak still ends up using +4x times the storage equivalent of appimage, comparison with flatpak dedup checker for ~20 common GUI apps:
And btw I need to update this comparison, a lot of the appimages on the right got a lot smaller lately.
The flatpak runtimes are huge, the GNOME runtime alone is over 2 GiB so that’s +20 appimages.