> Compared to Flatpak, Flatpak uses much more disk space. Flatpak has content-based deduplication via ostree. Snaps are squashfs images. They both have a conce

> Compared to Flatpak, Flatpak uses much more disk space. Flatpak has content-based deduplication via ostree. Snaps are squashfs images. They both have a concepts of shared common parts, runtimes. They both take about the same space on disk. However ostree has a hardlink farm for it's content store, so if you do not know how it works and how to measure it, you might have an impression that it takes more space. It does not. IN addition, if you have multiple applications, anything they have in common at file-level granularity will get deduplicated.