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
    • grinceur@programming.dev
      11·
      7 months ago

      i cannot fit a ssd in my phone, and i only have 16gigs of soldered emmc so yeah flatpak isn’t an option for me, i keep my aur packages…