Why people don't install Flatpak?

[Muayyad AlSadi]

> On the other hand, look at Snapstore, which take a small amount of RAM
and memory. And does everything that your software does.

BTW: snap has long way to match the technology of flatpak when you compare
apples to apples, check this old article
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/06/gnome-platform-snap-development

in most cases you misinterpret the numbers (by counting the file sizes
multiple times, despite that flatpak has de-duplicated them)

> There must be some ways to make Flaphub smaller.

for QT non-KDE apps I believe the answer is yes,



On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 8:55 PM Alberto Fanjul Alonso <
albertofanjul at gmail.com> wrote:

> Prabesh, not really, run in an isolate sandbox needs that 1Gb. But after
> that each app will waste a couple of Mb. What's the deal today with those
> huge hard disk? About the internet connection (cost and speed) there's
> little we can do.
>
> Enjoy and spread the word, flatpak is amazing for users and maintainers!
>
> El mar., 19 mar. 2019 19:21, Prabesh bhattarai <prabesh432 at gmail.com>
> escribió:
>
>> I am sorry to be asking questions/doubts in a very rude way. It's just
>> Linux desktop environment is famous on the terms like opensource,
>> "lite-weight" and free terminologies.
>>
>> This is not only my concern that Flatpak is 960mb big. Its the fact that
>> it is big. And many people find other alternatives. I just want you guys to
>> be famous, light-weight and more open about these things.
>>
>> There must be some ways to make Flaphub smaller.
>> I will love to see that in the near future.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 11:52 PM Prabesh bhattarai <prabesh432 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I am sorry to be asking questions/doubts in a very rude way. It's just
>>> Linux desktop environment is famous on the terms like opensource,
>>> "lite-weight" and free terminologies.
>>>
>>> This is not only my concern that this 960mb is big. Its the fact that it
>>> is big. And many people find other alternatives. I just want you guys to be
>>> famous, light-weight and more open about these things.
>>>
>>> There must be so many ways to make Flaphub smaller.
>>> I will love to see that in the near future.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 9:25 PM <sri at ramkrishna.me> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 2:04 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I would like to point out that this is an incredibly rude response as
>>>> you make assumptions about the underlying technology and are directing a
>>>> group of mature software developers on what they should do.  Several people
>>>> have already responded to why it is what it is.  Please be more considerate
>>>> when posting next time.
>>>>
>>>> sri
>>>>
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