One of the criticisms people have with containerizing their desktop apps is the "insane amount of space for their environment" that people think it requires. That's a direct quote from a reddit post on the topic from today.
Let's have a look
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Flatpaks aren’t huge at all. This is a debunked myth. I can’t recommend reading this article enough.
I have over a decade old used and and beat up laptop. Even that had enough space that the extra space use from flatpak was never an issue.
I feel like you’re being a bit too dramatic here. Even old as shit laptops and desktops aren’t so space starved that flatpak use would he a huge issue.
Ah yes. The mindset of: I have lots of money to spend on storage, so we shouldn’t care about optimisation for less fortunate users.
No, the mindset that the storage is less than pennies worth and this usage would have to explode massively to even approach negligible.
A device that is affected in any way by a GB of storage space is going to choke on 50 other things way before you get to that.
I have a cheap laptop with a small SSD dual booting Windows. To me, a couple of GB does matter.
Not when the manufacturers solder the storage and mark it up 1000+%. For many devices, 1GB is still worth over $1.
I have over a decade old used and and beat up laptop. Even that had enough space that the extra space use from flatpak was never an issue.
I feel like you’re being a bit too dramatic here. Even old as shit laptops and desktops aren’t so space starved that flatpak use would he a huge issue.