• BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    Because it’s easier to use the version that’s in the distro, and why do I need an extra set of libraries filling up my disk.

    I see flatpack as a last resort, where I trade disk space for convenience, because you end up with a whole OS worth of flatpack dependencies (10+ GB) on your disk after a few upgrade cycles.

    • F04118F@feddit.nl
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      3 months ago

      Is compiling it yourself with the time and effort that it costs worth more than a few GB of disk space?

      Then your disk is very expensive and your labor very cheap.

      • ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        3 months ago

        They didn’t say anything about compiling it themselves, just that they prefer native packages to flatpak

        edit: I can’t read

        • Batbro@sh.itjust.works
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          3 months ago

          2 comments up they said

          If the choice then is flatpack vs compile your own, I think I’ll generally compile it, but it depends on the circumstances.

    • TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
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      3 months ago

      I mean it’s 2024. I regularly download archives that are several tens or even over 100 GB and then completely forget they’re sitting on my drive, because I don’t notice it when the drive is 4TB. Last time I cared about 10GB here and there was in the late-2000s.

      • BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca
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        3 months ago

        Great that you have 4tb on your root partition then by all means use flatpack.

        I have 256Gb on my laptop, as I recall I provisioned about 40-50gigs to root.