Flatpaks aren’t huge at all. This is a debunked myth. I can’t recommend reading this article enough.

  • JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    Ah yes. The mindset of: I have lots of money to spend on storage, so we shouldn’t care about optimisation for less fortunate users.

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      9 months ago

      No, the mindset that the storage is less than pennies worth and this usage would have to explode massively to even approach negligible.

      A device that is affected in any way by a GB of storage space is going to choke on 50 other things way before you get to that.

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        9 months ago

        Not when the manufacturers solder the storage and mark it up 1000+%. For many devices, 1GB is still worth over $1.