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Exactly. I think this is a massive problem, and also as someone that works on one of Ubuntu distributions, I always wonder how much strain it introduces togethe
by nicksbg 2y ago
Exactly. I think this is a massive problem, and also as someone that works on one of Ubuntu distributions, I always wonder how much strain it introduces together with flatpaks and snaps.
- YorickPeterse 2y agoMy `~/.var/app` directory is 14 GiB in size, 12 GiB of which is used by Signal (which is mostly photos and videos) and 1.8 GiB by Firefox. All other programs only take up a few MiB of space. In terms of installation size it's not a problem either, as one can verify using `flatpak list --columns=size,name`: 1.3 MB Flatseal 2.9 MB Extension Manager 47.7 MB Celluloid 604.6 MB Freedesktop Platform 680.0 MB Freedesktop Platform 533.8 MB Mesa 533.8 MB Mesa (Extra) 469.8 MB Mesa 469.8 MB Mesa (Extra) 46.9 MB Intel VAAPI driver 50.9 MB Intel VAAPI driver 20.3 MB FFmpeg extension with extra codecs 790.0 kB openh264 763.9 kB openh264 243.7 MB GNU Image Manipulation Program 7.7 MB HEIC 17.6 MB Characters 14.2 MB Connections 25.4 MB Image Viewer 946.7 kB HEIC 25.5 MB Sushi 39.8 MB Papers 941.3 MB GNOME Application Platform version 46 1.0 GB GNOME Application Platform version 47 794.1 kB Fonts 137.7 MB gThumb Image Viewer 1.1 MB adw-gtk3 Gtk Theme 269.6 MB Firefox 482.3 MB Signal Desktop The duplicate entries is because certain Flatpaks may require different versions of e.g. the Freedesktop platform (that being possible is one of its big selling points). In short, storage isn't a problem at all for any computer produced in the last 20 years.
- nicksbg 2y agoFair, but not strain in terms of storage space. More in terms of disk writes and how write intensive it could be, which can be a problem especially for SSDs.