For context: I habe a PC with an 8gb SSD and I somehow need to get an app on there that only has a flatpak release
1- Those locale and icon themes will be reused with other flatpacks. And it’s less than half of a gigabyte, not the 2tb claimed in the overlay text.
2- Use docker container with prowlarr instead of torrhunt. And check https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/piracy
It’s very efficient for what it does. and your programs will actually open.
People bitching about Flatpaks don’t understand that they have dedupe built in. You’re literally not using any more space and it’s easier for app developers to deploy.
Try using Snaps sometime, if you want something to actually bitch about.
Another missed occasion to have taken a screenshot. There’s gnome-screenshot, scrot, your DE’s integrated tool and so many others to choose from, you can do it!
That sort of shit makes me hate the modern internet. (Also screenshots are cleaner and therefore compress better since you seem to care (rightfully) about storage space.)
Yeah but if youre using a lemmy app on your phone its significantly faster to just use your phone camera rather than having to share/transfer the file over somehow, or sign into lemmy on your pc. Im not saying you’re wrong, but i get why someone wouldn’t care for a quick throwaway post. Also storage then isnt an issue on the PC at all because the image is only on the phone.
Phones also have limited storage?
Regardless, posting on the desktop is exactly as hard as typing in the name of your instance and your credentials…
If you’re gonna be editing a meme, typing comments and such, it’s worth it very fast imo.
And crucially, it’s a really basic form of respect for your audience. Oh and also framing the shot correctly, we’re missing part of the text…
No problem, just makr sure your system has the exact version of libraries the application needs. And oh, you will only update those dependencies when the application update updates the requirements.
Oh what’s that? Another application you want to install uses the same lib but different version? Tough luck, chump!
Seriously it’s either flatpaks or the multi-version dependency management that openSUSE has, and you’re not saving much more space here either.
or statically compiling literally everything then you got 50 copies of the same thing like windows & macos!
Don’t your filesystem deduplicate it on the fly anyway?
So maybe use Debian and compile the app yourself instead? The Dev made something free with their time, use your time to make it work for you.
Flatpak only is a yikes, but I see the appeal Works with everyone, so is fools prove But a .deb is always welcome ;)
Alternatively though, if an app has KDE library dependencies for example, it’s kinda nice to not have to install a whole other desktop system wide.
No source to compile it yourself?
“maybe a software being excessively bloated isn’t a good thing”
“just buy more storage bro”
B*tch. i live in a third world country, with limited internet and data plan, and also is still a student. If i can just buy more storage and better hardware i will.
This excuse is so dumb for many reasons. Provide me the source and I will make my own package if needed.
The same excuse is used to make terribly performing video games… Just buy a better graphics card if you want to run
<any modern game>at over 60fps!Get a tape player jeeez
and 8gb ssd? at that size it’s surely a removable 2242 ngff drive, it’s like 10$ for a 64gb one. you’re quite literally throttling your systems read/write speed, cause ssds want at least 20% free to manipulate files.
you probably have thrice that in your yay/paru or emerge cache
i know what you are.
I refuse to use anything that only has a flatpak.
I’ll kill an entire project because there’s no other alternative.
fuck flatpak and all others like it.
What exists that is only available as a flatpak? The source should be available at least.
I’m lazy and don’t want to build from source.
I’ve already got 30 other projects I’m building from my own sources, I don’t need another.
There’s very good reasons that app developers focus on flatpaks, which mostly revolves around how incredibly terrible the experience is creating native packages for each distro and each release version of those various distros.
Flatpak used to be problematic, but even a loud hater of Flatpak, Richard Brown of openSUSE, now lauds Flatpak as an excellent solution after his criticisms were addressed.
Yes, I personally use flatpak because I want a reliable way to update packages that are not in the native repositories. Still, I would love if it would be like snaps in the sense that I can use the native libraries and only install the app as flatpak.
Its just really frustrating to have to install the whole fricking gnome desktop again just so some flatpak can use it
damn you got ubuntuwashed, not sure if that is worse than windowashed or not
You… prefer snaps?
I guess we found the one person with that hot take.
