I went to install some software today (Gradia) which is only available via Flathub apparently, the install size is larger than my distro which feels like a bit much for a screenshot tool. What’s the deal with the massive size of Flatpaks and is it really worth all the extra space? 4GB per application?

  • anamethatisnt
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    4 months ago

    The size seem to be crazy large for you, yeah. Here’s my testinstallation for reference in Fedora 43 KDE:

    • etherphon@lemmy.worldOP
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      4 months ago

      Huh, interesting, here’s what the software install screen looks like in LMDE7… I have not installed any Flatpaks yet so that could be it? I’m not sure otherwise. I’ve run into several other large Flatpaks since, so maybe it’s some bug idk.

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        4 months ago

        Yeah, me having the dependencies from earlier flatpaks would be the difference.