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What's your opinion on Snap/Flatpak, and why? (self.linux)

submitted 1 year ago by IUsedTo to c/[email protected]

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I know snap is fairly unpopular in the Linux community, and I've seen mixed responses regarding Flatpak. I wanted to know, what's the general opinion of people in this community regarding this 2 package managers?

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[–] bazsy 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It definitely is an inconvenience and I don't have a fix for an existing install. However on a new install the filesystem can help to reduce the size with deduplication and compression:

# compsize /var/lib/flatpak/
Processed 235840 files, 76506 regular extents (181549 refs), 132457 inline.
Type       Perc     Disk Usage   Uncompressed Referenced  
TOTAL       60%      4.6G         7.7G          17G       
none       100%      3.0G         3.0G         6.3G       
zstd        35%      1.6G         4.6G          10G