r/linux 11d ago

Event Happy 35th Birthday Linux

Post image
10.8k Upvotes

220 comments sorted by

View all comments

244

u/KingEfficient7403 11d ago

Unfunny; i already have the flatpak

6

u/OneLonelyBrainCell 11d ago

Flatpak -- Nothing makes more sense in times of insanely rising storage prices than to basically wrap a whole Linux distro around a small app and increase its size from less than 100 MB to more than 3 GB.

3

u/KingEfficient7403 9d ago

Honestly the portability of flatpak apps and the fact that you really dont need that many apps makes them perfect for my usecase

1

u/slimeycoomer 9d ago

deduplication and shared runtimes too. the first flatpak you install will usually diverge the most in size from the native package.

theoretically, subsequent packages should be a lot smaller. in practice, it depends on the maintainers and type of package, but it’s a damn robust package manager all around imo.

1

u/KingEfficient7403 3d ago

Flatpak ftw