Flatpaks aren’t huge at all. This is a debunked myth. I can’t recommend reading this article enough.
even on a 64GB (space, not RAM) machine, I would use a flatpak centric installation. The 1GB difference isn’t really that important, imo.
Maybe I’m in the wrong here but I would think focusing on management time for Flatpak vs whatever would be the important part, not disk space usage.
No, you’re right but people keep saying that space is a concern when thinking about flatpak. This article clearly shows that that’s not an issue.
Gotcha, I didn’t realize the author was just driving another nail into that coffin.
What it means is that you’re getting the libs the program uses with the program instead of using the system libs, this defeats the whole point of shared memory and wastes RAM, it is inefficient but saves them from having to compile for each distro, still, the system loader has to resolve and load these making loading slower, if they had to include the libs, a better way to do it is to simply compile the binary as a static binary with all the libs compiled in, at least that way it saves the loader overhead.
This is the exact same mentality that’s resulted in the overconsumption and waste that’s currently killing the planet. “Bandwidth is cheap! Diskspace is cheap! May as well be sloppy and wasteful, because resources are cheap.” Sound familiar? It has an impact on real world resource usage; the computer industry alone is driving strip-mining as we try to satisfy demands for more rare elements needed to make computers-
Bandwidth and storage are cheap… if you live in a first-world country. Increasing storage demands drive up real-world crass consumerism to upgrade, upgrade; it allows developers to be lazy and write unoptimized, crap software and distribute web applications packaged up and thinly disguised as desktop apps that consume significants percentages of CPU, memory, and disk at (apparent) idle, as they waste bandwidth polling the network - I’m looking at you, almost every Electron app.
If you think sloppy and wasteful software (flatpack as an example isn’t sloppy, but it is wasteful) isn’t responsible for real world wasteful consumerism, ask yourself why you upgraded your last computer. Was it too slow? Not enough memory? Did you buy a bigger disk because it was pretty?
People bitch about proof-of-work cryptocurrency wasting electricity, and rightly so. But they do it while installing shit 1GB Electron chat programs on their computers, and 70MB calculators on their phones. Which they then upgrade because it’s “too slow,” or because they need “the bigger GBs.” Flatpack and Snap aren’t as bad as Node, but they’re part of the “waste” trend, make no mistake.
@sxan @beta_tester EXACTLY, I am glad SOMEBODY gets it.
You had me in the first half, not gonna lie
They sure are huge on my system and spread their shit over half the file systems. Firefux is a complete disaster now that it is flatpack.
