Disclaimer
Flatpak uses OSTree, like Fedora Atomic Desktops (Silverblue, Kinoite etc) and similar to BTRFS snapshots.
So many files are deduplicated and linked, not actually there
https://gitlab.com/TheEvilSkeleton/flatpak-dedup-checker
50GB without
31GB with deduplication
21,4GB with BTRFS compression
I fell for the lie of flatpak not being bloated, I just nuked flatpak from my PC since I just run arch anyways. Im not sure if repo is safe to remove. You might be able to run
rmlint -gand see how much data can be deduplicated on an FS level, I never checked myself since I run f2fs, but if you run an FS with dedupe capabilities it may work for you.Flatpak uses ostree just as my system. So probably lots of the files are already deduplicated and it is not as dramatic as it seems.
It’s not as dramatic for me but it’s still bad. I myself freed at least 20 Gb from my computer when I remove flat pack and all of its crap. and migrated my apps to aur myself.
So you dont have isolation from the system and a working permission system anymore…
If I need isolation, I can use fire jail. And I don’t know why I think they don’t have a working permission system. It works perfectly fine.
Firejail has some major vulnerabilities if you want to be secure. Bubblejail would be preferred but it has even less documentation not to mention presets like with Flatpak. So you need to sandbox every app yourself afaik
This is news to me, one of these major vulnerabilities?
https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/linux.html#firejail
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q1/25
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=firejail
I am aware of that, but even with it there’s still a decent amount of waste.
Why do you care about 20gigs? A 128gb SSD is 10 bucks.
so, are you paying for it?
i cannot fit a ssd in my phone, and i only have 16gigs of soldered emmc so yeah flatpak isn’t an option for me, i keep my aur packages…