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submitted 10 months ago by beta_tester@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Flatpaks aren't huge at all. This is a debunked myth. I can't recommend reading this article enough.

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[-] j0rge@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago

I'm the author of the blog post and a former sysadmin, there's really no maintenance to do with flatpaks, not having to deal with traditional package manager issues have removed that problem completely from my life.

Distros may or may not provide this functionality, but on my systems they're set up for zero maintenance of the OS base image and the flatpaks via service units and then I don't have to do anything.

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