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I'm fine with using traditional package managers, is there any benefit to using Flatpak? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by etherphon@lemmy.world to c/linux4noobs@lemmy.world

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I went to install some software today (Gradia) which is only available via Flathub apparently, the install size is larger than my distro which feels like a bit much for a screenshot tool. What's the deal with the massive size of Flatpaks and is it really worth all the extra space? 4GB per application?

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[–] etherphon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thank you, yeah I noticed some apps are only Flatpak which is why I asked, I understand dependencies but that seems like a lot of extra software to lean on for a screenshot tool, thought there might be more to it. I'll check out Flatseal if I need use them.

[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The size seem to be crazy large for you, yeah. Here's my testinstallation for reference in Fedora 43 KDE:

[–] etherphon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Huh, interesting, here's what the software install screen looks like in LMDE7... I have not installed any Flatpaks yet so that could be it? I'm not sure otherwise. I've run into several other large Flatpaks since, so maybe it's some bug idk.

[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah, me having the dependencies from earlier flatpaks would be the difference.

[–] linuxPIPEpower@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

But does that include any required deps?