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[-] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Is it even a problem for a desktop in 2024? Never had an issue with RAM or diskspace. And even for those that have, they can just not use flatpak until they upgrade, no reason to kill it.

[-] 31337@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

I assume the "kill it" comment was a little tongue-in-cheek. On small SBCs, like a Pi, or old hardware, it could be a problem. I've seen people with flatpaks taking up 30GB of space, which is significant. I'm not sure how much RAM it wastes. I assume running 6 different applications that have loaded 6 different versions of Qt libraries would also use significantly more RAM than just loading the system's shared Qt libraries once.

[-] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I don't see a problem with Flatpak in this. It does what it's supposed to do. You find not using it better? That's great, that option is the default in all of the distributives.

[-] 31337@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I agree. I do use Flatpaks, Snaps, and Appimages sometimes if I can't find a suitable deb repo/package. Flatpak is the best out of the three because they do try to avoid too much duplication through runtimes. I also use Docker quite a bit, which has similar issues (and benefits).

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