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

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[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] Inui@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] ProletarianDictator@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] tim_curry@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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