It depends on what your metrics are for energy and resources. Are you talking about the end user hardware, or are you talking about developer time and effort. If it’s the former, you’re right, if it’s the latter you’re completely wrong. And while there’s merit to your point (if it is about end user storage, energy consumption, etc), that’s not really in short supply while open source developers free time is.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 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 5 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 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

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