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Is there a downside to Flatpak?
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this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2024
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I think bringing in an entire operating system, which may well include libraries and other files that I already have installed, to run something small can be considered bloat.
I currently have multiple versions of Nvidia's libraries installed for some reason on my system through flatpak. I have no idea why that's necessary but if I don't allow this to happen I get dropped down to software rendering.