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The wonderful world of Linux package managers
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this post was submitted on 19 Apr 2025
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There's a good deal of misinformation here. The main part being disk space. While it is true that flatpak apps will take up more space, it's not nearly as bad as you think it is. There is a lot of really good optimization going on under the hood that you don't see. Dependencies are de duplicated. I'm no expert on it, but I believe that dependencies also have delta changes from one version to the next.
Regarding apps not supporting building of the source, you should get over that or do the work of supporting it yourself. Open source is a hard, usually thankless job.
I installed liri-shell, and some other apps some time back, and totally disliked the experience. Too many duplicated stuff, which was totally unnecessary. While I can, I void universal packagers.
I'm not complaining about open source, I've been using FLOSS for so many years now. The thing with developers only supporting universal packages distributed binaries is that the build recipes might be too tight to them, or not explicitly exposing all dependencies, and several other things. I have no issues building and installing software. So that's not it. All I said was that to me closing bugs because not using the universal package supported is sort of crazy, being open source and supposedly being able to build and distribute. I didn't say I couldn't support myself.