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.
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Flatpaks aren’t huge at all. This is a debunked myth. I can’t recommend reading this article enough.
Author here. The distro comes with the filesystem compression and deduplication already set up and I don’t need to manage it, so of course I’m going to use it.
Given the cost of storage I have no problems spending a barely noticeable amount of space to use flatpaks given all the problems they solve.
I feel like they assumed people were familiar with flatpak.
But one big problem is software availability and distribution. Developers don’t care to make a version for every distro and keep it up to date. That’s work that distro repo packagers need to do. And that’s a shitload of work, divided between loads of distros and their repos. For user the effect from this would be that an app might not get updates very quickly or that the app simply isn’t in the repo. Flatpak solves this in that developer (or someone) can make a flatpak of the app and it’s easily available to everyone. Cuts down a ton of work and improves app availability for users.
Author here. The distro comes with the filesystem compression and deduplication already set up and I don’t need to manage it, so of course I’m going to use it.
Given the cost of storage I have no problems spending a barely noticeable amount of space to use flatpaks given all the problems they solve.
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I feel like they assumed people were familiar with flatpak.
But one big problem is software availability and distribution. Developers don’t care to make a version for every distro and keep it up to date. That’s work that distro repo packagers need to do. And that’s a shitload of work, divided between loads of distros and their repos. For user the effect from this would be that an app might not get updates very quickly or that the app simply isn’t in the repo. Flatpak solves this in that developer (or someone) can make a flatpak of the app and it’s easily available to everyone. Cuts down a ton of work and improves app availability for users.