Why people don't install Flatpak?

[Felipe Borges]

Please, read https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2017/10/02/on-application-sizes-and-bloat-in-flatpak/
to understand the storage consumption.

Flatpak has the concept of a Runtime which contains low-level
dependencies that multiple applications can depend on. Runtimes are
useful to avoid duplication (imagine all gtk apps bundling their own
Gtk) and to deliver updates (imagine a CVE was found in a core library
that many apps depend on).

All in all, when you are downloading a Flatpak application from GNOME
Software/Flathub that depends on a runtime that you still don't have
locally, it will pull the runtime alongside it. Thus the big
download-size numbers you  have.

So, for instance, when you downloaded the flatpak of a GNOME app, it
will likely pull org.gnome.Platform for the first time if you still
don't have it. The other GNOME apps you'd install afterwards will have
a much smaller download-size.

On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 10:05 AM Prabesh bhattarai <prabesh432 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ans: Because of it more than 900mb. That is a huge chunk of RAM and memory consumption. Why it is so heavy? Make it run below 100mb.
>
> Remove unwanted codes.
>
> Even entire Linux distros are like 1GB, and that the size of ur app.
>
> On the other hand, look at Snapstore, which take a small amount of RAM and memory. And does everything that your software does.
>
> P.S: Cutdown the flatpak from 930mb to 100mb if possible. Make it smooth and sexy.
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