• BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    If I can choose between flatpack and distro package, distro wins hands down.

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

      • BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca
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        6 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.

        • TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
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          6 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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            6 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.

        • F04118F@feddit.nl
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          6 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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            6 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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              6 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.