For context: I habe a PC with an 8gb SSD and I somehow need to get an app on there that only has a flatpak release

  • Samueru_sama@programming.dev
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    13 days ago

    and through deduplication between different runtimes and runtime versions. There’s usually very little bloat, if any, especially if you use Flatpaks a lot,

    ~20 different GUI applications, flatpak ended up using 14 GiB of storage while the appimage equivalent used 3.2 GIB.

    And note I was not able to find flatpaks for ghostty, goverlay, kdeconnect and a few other apps, meaning the actual bloat of flatpak is even higher.

    Edit: And this is even worse if you are an nvidia user, flatpak will download the entire nvidia driver as well.

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      AppImage isn’t a good comparison for a lot of different reasons and I think enough people have summarised that on the internet by now.