merompetehla@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 5 months agowhat are the pros and cons of apt vs flatpak?message-squaremessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up175arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up169arrow-down1message-squarewhat are the pros and cons of apt vs flatpak?merompetehla@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square42fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareMarkus@hubzilla.markusgarlichs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down3·5 months agoFlatpaks require more storage space as all dependencies are combined in a flatpak. For me rather 2nd choice.
minus-squaremyersguy@lemmy.simpl.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up14·5 months agoFYI: Flatpaks can share some dependencies and duplicate files.
minus-squareSamueru@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoThey still use way more storage. My entire distro + home + 30 appimages (which includes the equivalent flatpak applications as appimage) is 4.2 GiB
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 months agoIt isn’t bad if you have a bunch of flatapaks as they share dependencies. For install the first install might be huge but the second app that also uses the same framework will be much smaller
Flatpaks require more storage space as all dependencies are combined in a flatpak. For me rather 2nd choice.
FYI: Flatpaks can share some dependencies and duplicate files.
They still use way more storage.
My entire distro + home + 30 appimages (which includes the equivalent flatpak applications as appimage) is
4.2 GiBIt isn’t bad if you have a bunch of flatapaks as they share dependencies. For install the first install might be huge but the second app that also uses the same framework will be much smaller