Disclaimer

Flatpak uses OSTree, like Fedora Atomic Desktops (Silverblue, Kinoite etc) and similar to BTRFS snapshots.

So many files are deduplicated and linked, not actually there

https://gitlab.com/TheEvilSkeleton/flatpak-dedup-checker

50GB without
31GB with deduplication
21,4GB with BTRFS compression
    • @Pantherina@feddit.deOP
      27•7 months ago

      Because its a modern package system that is free, focused on making every app run, has isolation, sandboxing and a permission system

      • @miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
        18•7 months ago

        And brings the most recent version of something to any system. I’m astounded sometimes by how much a native package can lag behind

    • @MonkderZweite@feddit.ch
      4•7 months ago

      Convenient libraries/frameworks are fat. Because they are fat, they need frequent updates/security fixes, breaking codebase more often. With flatpack, developers can freeze lib versions at a convenient point, without caring for system dependencies.