For context: I habe a PC with an 8gb SSD and I somehow need to get an app on there that only has a flatpak release

  • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
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    4 days ago

    Yes absolutely true, but also no.

    https://gitlab.com/TheEvilSkeleton/flatpak-dedup-checker

    For me it is 32GB of data with deduplication, and only like 25GB with BTRFS compression.

    So while still way too much, not really a problem if you have a reasonable 50mbits+ internet connection and a 200GB+ SSD

    There should still be waay more force. There should only be one runtime (FDO) and KDE and GNOME being extensions to that. Not sure if these perfectly dedupe though

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      3 days ago

      Those figures are larger than the total storage usage on my work computer, with every tools installed and repositories cloned locally. I know that large storage are way more accessible, but it still sounds crazy to take so much space.

      The only way I can go over that is by installing npm dependencies in every source tree, which is also a thing that really should be improved.