• oatscoop@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    Why are they so god-damn big? Let’s look at a few pieces of software on Linux Mint

    Stellarium: Real-time photo-realistic sky generator

    • System Package: 197 MB to download, 332 MB on disk
    • Flatpak: 907 MB to download, 2.5 GB on disk

    Blender: Very fast and versatile 3D modeller/renderer

    • System Package: 146 MB to download, 810 MB on disk
    • Flatpak: 955 MB to download, 3.1 GB on disk

    VLC: VLC media player, the open-source multimedia player

    • System Package: 8.5 MB to download, 47 MB on disk
    • Flatpak 724 MB to download, 2.4 GB on disk

    I ran “apt remove vlc --purge && apt autoremove && apt install vlc” to double check, because that seemed insane.

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      1 year ago

      The huge-looking sizes are not representative of actual size on disk. On first installation of one app of a kind, their runtime packages get installed as well. For example, installing GNOME apps will install the latest GNOME runtime. But after that, installing any other GNOME app takes little to no space.

      In your case, you don’t seem to have any apps installed as Flatpaks, which means even the freedesktop runtimes are missing and need to be installed. That’s probably why it looks so huge.