Karna@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.ml · 5 days agoGNOME Software May Eventually Drop RPM Support In Favor Of Flatpakswww.phoronix.comexternal-linkmessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up1149arrow-down18
arrow-up1141arrow-down1external-linkGNOME Software May Eventually Drop RPM Support In Favor Of Flatpakswww.phoronix.comKarna@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.ml · 5 days agomessage-square39fedilink
minus-squareembed_me@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·4 days agoI think they use up too much space. I primarily use laptops with limited SSD storage and using flatpak has come back to bite me a couple of times.
minus-squareverdigris@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·4 days agoThe space becomes less and less of an issue the more of your system is in flatpaks, as any shared dependencies won’t be duplicated.
minus-squarebluee@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·4 days agoIn this part, I agree, company laptop only provide 256 usable 234gb, and well… it doesn’t works great if I use a lot of flatpak apps for now, So I opt to use rpms… if 512, it will be different…
I think they use up too much space. I primarily use laptops with limited SSD storage and using flatpak has come back to bite me a couple of times.
The space becomes less and less of an issue the more of your system is in flatpaks, as any shared dependencies won’t be duplicated.
Oh that makes sense.
In this part, I agree, company laptop only provide 256 usable 234gb, and well… it doesn’t works great if I use a lot of flatpak apps for now, So I opt to use rpms… if 512, it will be different…