I don’t know where this myth about Flatpaks always being gigabytes in size originates from or why it’s so persistent, but it’s wrong.
Alright, here is ~25 GUI apps flatpak vs appimage:
6 GiB flatpak.
2.7 GIB appimage.
This is if you have a filesystem with transparent compression, If you do not have such filesystem (ext4), then it is more like 15 GIB vs 2.9 GiB lol.
This comparison is missing the flatpak equivalents of kdeconnect, deadbeef and a few CLI tools that I have on right btw, flatpak-dedup-checker for some reason doesn’t check the /var/lib/flatpak/repo directory which is usually another +1GiB in best case scenario.
Alright, here is ~25 GUI apps flatpak vs appimage:
This is if you have a filesystem with transparent compression, If you do not have such filesystem (ext4), then it is more like 15 GIB vs 2.9 GiB lol.
This comparison is missing the flatpak equivalents of kdeconnect, deadbeef and a few CLI tools that I have on right btw,
flatpak-dedup-checkerfor some reason doesn’t check the/var/lib/flatpak/repodirectory which is usually another +1GiB in best case scenario.