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Flathub has passed 2 billion downloads (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17180451

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

developer time and effort has to increase 100 fold to even touch the energy waste larger downloads create.

How much more efficient do you recon the developers are because of flatpack? Does it quantify against the bandwidth and storage needs?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Where I live, most electricity is hydroelectric, nuclear, or wind. So it's really NBD to download a few extra MBs of data, especially since flatpaks aren't something you need to download over and over again.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Nice - so no impact as you have hydro. Got it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Not "no" impact (the laws of thermodynamics are still a thing), but it's pretty negligible.