• Turret3857@infosec.pub
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    9 days ago

    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.

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      9 days ago

      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.