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Lots of PCs are poised to fall off the Windows 10 update cliff one year from today (arstechnica.com)
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[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yup. The big downside to flatpak is that, as you said, it takes up more space.

To make a Windows comparison, imagine needing to install Java separately for every single program that needs it. Flatpaks tend to be orders of magnitude larger than technically necessary, simply because they’re sandboxed and come with everything they need to run, even if you already have it installed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

imagine needing to install Java separately for every single program that needs it

Isn't that pretty close to what already happens though? With all of the different versions of java, different companies packaging up their special versions of OpenJDK, I've got quite a few different java versions on my computer plus I'm pretty sure I've seen some software just package their own Java binary with the software presumably to limit Java version mismatches