• morto@piefed.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    2 months ago

    My only issue with flatpaks is that sometimes when I want to quickly install something using gnome software, it takes ages and downloads several GBs of data, despite the app having a much smaller size. This is really weird and makes me avoid using it, but I don’t know if it’s something with flatpak or gnome software

    • SamueruSama@programming.dev
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      2 months ago

      This is because flatpak apps depend on flatpak runtimes, so the app will download the entire runtime it needs when you dont have it installed already.

      This is bad because a lot of flatpak runtimes like the GNOME runtime only have one year of support, so you blow a lot of storage in practice