Disclaimer

Flatpak uses OSTree, like Fedora Atomic Desktops (Silverblue, Kinoite etc) and similar to BTRFS snapshots.

So many files are deduplicated and linked, not actually there

https://gitlab.com/TheEvilSkeleton/flatpak-dedup-checker

50GB without
31GB with deduplication
21,4GB with BTRFS compression
  • Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 months ago

    There was an app that dealt with desktop entry and auto-update but it hasn’t bee updated since a few years already.

    no repo (= virus danger)

    Can be remedied with an official store/ being distrubuted by the devs themselves instead of random people. Appimage isn’t getting a tenth of the support flatpak is getting.

    no deduplication of libraries

    Might worth it if you have dozens of very heavy apps but it’s totally not the case if you only need a few simple programs.