The ballooning storage issue was mentioned along with Flatpak, and is an issue as every single dependency is pulled in. AppImage excludes those dependencies whi

The ballooning storage issue was mentioned along with Flatpak, and is an issue as every single dependency is pulled in. AppImage excludes those dependencies which are "reasonably expected" to be on any Linux system. See the Application Sizes section here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/866511/what-are-the-differences-between-snaps-appimage-flatpak-and-others#1009061 https://askubuntu.com/questions/866511/what-are-the-differen... Example: LibreOffice download size (source) - AppImage ~248 MByte - Snap 463 MByte [July 2020 update] - Flatpak 543 MByte EDIT: formatting