morto comments on Why Flatpak Won and Snap and AppImage Didn't.

[–] morto@piefed.social 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

My only issue with flatpaks is that sometimes when I want to quickly install something using gnome software, it takes ages and downloads several GBs of data, despite the app having a much smaller size. This is really weird and makes me avoid using it, but I don't know if it's something with flatpak or gnome software

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[–] Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 8 months ago

I believe it's a consequence of how flatpaks are sandboxed. The software itself might be small, but that sandbox also has to contain every dependency that software requires. It can get distressing when you're on a 500GB ssd.

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[–] SamueruSama@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago

This is because flatpak apps depend on flatpak runtimes, so the app will download the entire runtime it needs when you dont have it installed already.

This is bad because a lot of flatpak runtimes like the GNOME runtime only have one year of support, so you blow a lot of storage in practice

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