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How do you feel about Flatpak? Do you like having universal packages separated from the operating system, or do you regret how much space they take? (piefed.zip)

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I was reading a bit about it recently, seems like there two positions are valid, curious to see what people here think.

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[–] mech@feddit.org 15 points 2 days ago

Space is cheap. Installing everything as Flatpak triples the space your OS needs, but that never mattered even on a 256GB SSD.
The reason I went back to distro-specific packages was that the quality of Flatpaks and how well they integrate into your OS differs wildly.

Usually there isn't any issue for popular applications, but my attempt to install only the bare minimum needed for Gnome Shell to run and install everything else from Flatpak lead to interesting results.
On the other hand, as soon as something forces you to deal with multilib (Steam) or updates every week (Signal Desktop), Flatpkas work better with less hassle.