Sophocles@infosec.pub to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · edit-29 days agoAppimage ruleinfosec.pubimagemessage-square31linkfedilinkarrow-up1150arrow-down18file-text
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minus-squareTurret3857@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·edit-29 days agoIt only installs dependencies once. If you install 10 libadwaita apps or 10 KDE apps, you only get 1 copy of libadwaita or KDE framework.
minus-squareSamueru_sama@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·9 days agoflatpak still ends up using +4x times the storage equivalent of appimage, comparison with flatpak dedup checker for ~20 common GUI apps: And btw I need to update this comparison, a lot of the appimages on the right got a lot smaller lately. The flatpak runtimes are huge, the GNOME runtime alone is over 2 GiB so that’s +20 appimages.
It only installs dependencies once. If you install 10 libadwaita apps or 10 KDE apps, you only get 1 copy of libadwaita or KDE framework.
flatpak still ends up using +4x times the storage equivalent of appimage, comparison with flatpak dedup checker for ~20 common GUI apps:
And btw I need to update this comparison, a lot of the appimages on the right got a lot smaller lately.
The flatpak runtimes are huge, the GNOME runtime alone is over 2 GiB so that’s +20 appimages.