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    Linux is the reason Windows apps are bloated these days (infosec.pub)
    submitted 1 week ago by kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    [โ€“] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 6 days ago (3 children)

    That's simply not true, if the required dependencies are already downloaded they get used by every Flatpak app. If you have three apps requiring the Gnome 46 libs those only exist once.

    I don't know where this myth about Flatpaks always being gigabytes in size originates from or why it's so persistent, but it's wrong.

    [โ€“] bobo1900@startrek.website 3 points 6 days ago

    I'm not saying that's not true.

    I'm saying I've almost never downloaded a Flatpak that didn't require a new dependency downloaded.

    When I removed all my flatpk some time ago, I had: Steam, Viking, Discord, FreeCad and Flatseal to manage them. All of them and their dependencies used something arounx 17 GB of disk space (most of which was of course several versions of dependency runtimes), and that was after I removed all the unused runtimes that forn some reason it doesn't remove after I uninstall or they are upgraded.

    I'm sure if I installed more Flatpaks, some dependencies would eventually be reused, but you still need a good collection of them at any given time. So in pracrice you still need a lot lf space unfortunately.

    [โ€“] Samueru_sama@programming.dev 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

    I donโ€™t know where this myth about Flatpaks always being gigabytes in size originates from or why itโ€™s so persistent, but itโ€™s wrong.

    Alright, here is ~25 GUI apps flatpak vs appimage:

    • 6 GiB flatpak.
    • 2.7 GIB appimage.

    This is if you have a filesystem with transparent compression, If you do not have such filesystem (ext4), then it is more like 15 GIB vs 2.9 GiB lol.

    This comparison is missing the flatpak equivalents of kdeconnect, deadbeef and a few CLI tools that I have on right btw, flatpak-dedup-checker for some reason doesn't check the /var/lib/flatpak/repo directory which is usually another +1GiB in best case scenario.

    [โ€“] Ghoelian@piefed.social 1 points 6 days ago

    In my experience the issue is different flatpaks depending on different versions of gnome platform or mesa or whatever, so you have multiple versions of the same library.

    I have plenty of storage though so I don't care that much.