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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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On "Wasting disk space" (www.ypsidanger.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Flatpaks aren't huge at all. This is a debunked myth. I can't recommend reading this article enough.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But it occupies a freaking crazy amount of space. People do really be on drugs when going with these religious strong stances.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah last time I tried Flatpak it took like 3 apps to completely fill up my laptop's root partition and use nearly as much space as my Arch install on its own. For some reason they all used a different platform/runtime/whatever they call it. Oh this one uses the latest Gnome 3, this other one the version before, and that other one Gnome 4. Same with KDE apps, they'd also pull different versions of KDE frameworks and Qt versions. How many versions of Gnome and KDE do I need, just run it on whatever's the latest.

Granted, my fault for not having quite a big enough root partition. But I'm skeptical about the methodology of the article because it doesn't match real world experience at all, at least for me.