Disclaimer

Flatpak uses OSTree, like Fedora Atomic Desktops (Silverblue, Kinoite etc) and similar to BTRFS snapshots.

So many files are deduplicated and linked, not actually there

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

50GB without
31GB with deduplication
21,4GB with BTRFS compression
  • Pantherina@feddit.deOP
    2·
    11 months ago

    I dont think that is true at all. Appimages are slowest and have many disadvantages like

    • no repo (= virus danger)
    • no app desktop entry
    • no updates
    • no deduplication of libraries
    • Unmapped@lemmy.ml
      1·
      11 months ago

      I always use the app image if they are available. As for being slow I never noticed.

      No app desktop entry is one on the reasons I like them. If its one I use a lot I make a hotkey to open it. But there are ways to add them. There is even a tool that makes its easy to do.

      No updates. I’m not sure how exactly, but everyone I use auto updates when I open them. I originally had a issue of it breaking my hotkey cause the file name would change because of the version number going up. Which I fixed by using a *.

    • callyral [he/they]@pawb.socialEnglish
      0·
      11 months ago

      no app desktop entry

      they can be added manually but yeah i get how that’s inconvenient.

      just run ./appimage.appimage --appimage-extract and you have the .desktop file there, then just edit the path to the executable

      • Pantherina@feddit.deOP
        1·
        11 months ago

        Yes but that is unimportant. This is not user friendly at all. I do that all the time for random stuff, but especially on GNOME the system hides stuff like that away from users and thats okay.