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What are your thoughts on Flatpak/Flathub? (flathub.org)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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How does it stack up against traditional package management and others like AUR and Nix?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Flatpak updates should generally download changed data, it does a poor job of showing how much this will be in advance though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

the actual update size for the application is logical as far as i remember, it's the other stuff alongside it (i think related to graphics card) which is the real issue. it added around 500MB each update while the actual update itself might've been 10 or 20 MB.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Yes, also it uses deduplication on the disk, where it is even less space actually used.