Can’t I go one week without having to uninstall and reinstall the damn deb file?

  • graham1@gekinzuku.comOP
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    1 year ago

    just fyi I moved Discord, GIMP, Obsidian, and OBS over to flatpak and my root partition jumped from 19GB to 23GB. I’m kinda sad about it tbh

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      1 year ago

      Most storage space viewers get confused by Flatpak’s heavily deduplicated and compressed files, leading to them reporting way larger space than what’s actually occupied on the hard drive.

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        1 year ago

        It’s true lol. I had to install Docker for teaching on my old drive and that instantly maxed out my root partition even when I kept deleting intermediate builds and unused data. Now I have this fun paranoia for all apps :)

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      First of all, stop using legacy SI units for the size of information, they only bring confusion, instead use IEC/binary units like GiB. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix

      Second of all, I know that with Flatpak’s ease of installation/runtime comes great size hit. It’s great that some layers are reusable, so it’s not a huge hit. Besides, with big disk size it’s not really a concern now is it?