Can't I go one week without having to uninstall and reinstall the damn deb file?
this post was submitted on 06 Nov 2023
550 points (94.8% liked)
linuxmemes
21222 readers
95 users here now
Hint: :q!
Sister communities:
- LemmyMemes: Memes
- LemmyShitpost: Anything and everything goes.
- RISA: Star Trek memes and shitposts
Community rules (click to expand)
1. Follow the site-wide rules
- Instance-wide TOS: https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
- Lemmy code of conduct: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/code_of_conduct.html
2. Be civil
- Understand the difference between a joke and an insult.
- Do not harrass or attack members of the community for any reason.
- Leave remarks of "peasantry" to the PCMR community. If you dislike an OS/service/application, attack the thing you dislike, not the individuals who use it. Some people may not have a choice.
- Bigotry will not be tolerated.
- These rules are somewhat loosened when the subject is a public figure. Still, do not attack their person or incite harrassment.
3. Post Linux-related content
- Including Unix and BSD.
- Non-Linux content is acceptable as long as it makes a reference to Linux. For example, the poorly made mockery of
sudoin Windows. - No porn. Even if you watch it on a Linux machine.
4. No recent reposts
- Everybody uses Arch btw, can't quit Vim, and wants to interject for a moment. You can stop now.
Please report posts and comments that break these rules!
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I haven't tried flatpacks yet. How do they compare to, say, snaps in terms of storage/redundancy?
no, flatpak has deduplication, so it can take less, and less space, from more flatpak you install(the first install is heavy, but it's downloading the runtime that others flatpak also share with)
Oh that's great! I'll switch to the flatpak tonight then
If you only have 2 or 3 flatpaks installed it's going to eat space like crazy. Deduplication only matters when many are used and if they have the same base. I've already suffered from too much space occupied because of flatpaks.
But the tradeoff is useful for bad software like this, at least it works, if you have space enough for it.
It looks like you're right. Uninstalling the deb and then installing the flatpak consumed an additional 2GB on my root, but I have a handful of other electron-based apps that are mildly obnoxious snaps, and migrating them might help amortize that cost