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[–] spookedintownsville@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (9 children)

The issue I have with flatpaks is the size for most applications. It just doesn't make sense for me. Not that it's not useful and has it's purposes.

[–] Toribor@corndog.social 2 points 2 days ago

Fast storage is one of the cheapest components of modern PCs so I'm always surprised when Flatpak file size is brought up. It's not something I worry about very much.

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