Post #987784
2026-04-08 00:26 UTC
What do you mean by “bloated”? How many more bytes does the flatpak version have compared to its counterpart?
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@pineapple@lemmy.ml 2026-04-12 23:57
I did a quick search and for steam the pacman package installed size is 19mb while the flathub package installed size is 51mb. That’s actually a way bigger difference than I thought it would be.
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@FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2026-04-08 00:56
Depends on the program, they don't use system libraries so if they have a lot of dependencies then they'll be larger. An example: Steam Flatpak: 35MB Steam pacman: 19MB On one hand, it's only a few MB. On the other hand, it's 54% larger. Flatpaks can also depend on other flatpaks. For example, graphics card support requires about 1-1.5GB of flatpak dependencies even though your system already has graphics card drivers.