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Fan of Flatpaks ...or Not?
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this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2025
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Well a 10mb app could take 20 but what about a 1gb one?
It would take 1,01gb
Dependencies typically take 5-80 megabytes of space.
That's just not true. I used to use flatpak and it would download nvidia drivers for each one.
Huh?
Either it did something it shouldn't, or the system updated Nvidia drivers every time for no apparent reason. I have an Nvidia GPU, running proprietary drivers, and haven't ever witnessed anything of the kind.