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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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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
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So you dont have isolation from the system and a working permission system anymore...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I am aware of that, but even with it there's still a decent amount of waste.