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    Now my arch is bloated more than the default ubuntu (lemmy.world)
    submitted 7 months ago by Waffelson to c/linuxmemes
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    [–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Flatpaks have helped me a lot reducing bloat, avoiding dependency hell.

    That said, probably there's some overlapping dependencies that, if installed in a different way I could save some space, but it's not worth it in my opinion.

    I'm also using rootless podman+systemd for certain services, but that's been a mixed bag compared with plain old docker or LXC.

    [–] TrickDacy 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    I thought the number one drawback to flatpaks is that they're enormous because each one includes all its own dependencies

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    No, same dependencies get deduplicated

    [–] TrickDacy 8 points 7 months ago

    Ah interesting. Good to know. Thank you

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    But you need at least one runtime right? How much overlap is it between what's included in the base install and the runtime?

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

    we are all runtimes on this blessed day

    [–] Samueru 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    Flatpak is like the most bloated thing ever because of the runtime and all the dependencies it needs.

    I did a test, flatpak with just firefox installed used 3 GiB of space.

    While 15 appimages that includes heavy applications like libreoffice, kdenlive and two web browsers uses 1.2GiB.