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Why not Thunderbird + Birdtray?
I didn't know about birdtray. I don't know how but
Gnome Calendar (Flatpak) + Evolutionseems to be giving me background notifications for now. I looked atBirdtrayit was 700mbs or something, I don't see the point of Flatpaks being that huge. I mean, I need to buy a new laptop if I need to run all flatpak. Anyways, thank you!That's not the case. Flatpak shows to be big because it includes the runtimes. But runtimes are shared between applications, so the size diff is not that much as it says.
Birdtray itself is about 1MB, but additionally pulls in dedicated Flatpak dependencies that it needs. If you use many Flatpaks, they share their dependencies just like a normal packaging system and become more efficient that way.