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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I am very conscious of how much data I use due to where I now live. I have noticed that flatpak's have a massive download size (100's of megs), especially when compared to the deb package (kb to mb) 2-3 orders of magnitude more.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Anyone correct me if im wrong but afaik, .deb packages just install the actual program and can utilize your systems existing packages as dependencies, while flatpaks are completely isolated and need to bring loads of dependencies with them. This whole trend towards isolated software packages is nice for security and compatibility, but yeah size and performance are comparably dogshit.