Love installing multiple gigabyte flatpaks of what would be 15mb exe files on Windows. I've enjoyed using Mint so far but there are definitely some things that suck, this is one of them
this post was submitted on 12 Sep 2025
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I wouldn’t be the first to say flatpaks are efficient but I’ve never seen one that big
In my experience they're all about this bloated, at least for the programs I use
Mine are about the size I'd expect them to be tbh
Wait, do they actually end up taking up less space than what the package manager says? In the package manager it says duckstation takes like 3 gigs or whatever
Yes. Stuff like Gnome software will show the total size of the flatpaks before deduplication and sharing dependencies with your other flatpaks. If you installed this as your only flatpak, it would be huge. But if you primarily use flatpaks like I do on my atomic system, they become smaller with each one as they share common components.
Yeah your first flatpak is huge because it needs all the deps, then subsequent flatpaks are more reasonably sized if they use the same SDK.
Idk I don’t use the store I’m a cli goblin you can run
flatpak list --columns=name,application,size,installation
To see the sizes. They come with dependencies so probably those are counted but they’re shared if they’re the same dependency across multiple apps
Yeah I guess its this
a lot of those could be a lot smaller if they weren't needlessly electron apps.