The Team Kodi PPA has long been a staple for Ubuntu (and similar) users wishing to use more recent, and less adulterated, versions of Kodi. It is with sadness that the team has come to a decision…
No, Firefox doesn’t take up multiple gigabytes of space. It shares a runtime with a bunch of other programs. So yeah if you literally install one Flatpak, it’ll prompt you to download a bunch of extra stuff, but after that it won’t. Most people don’t only install one program on their PCs, so it’s not much of an issue.
Flatpak has deduplication, which appimages doesn’t have. If you install a load of appimages and a bunch of flatpaks, the flatpaks should take up less space, because Flatpak uses deduplication (i.e. only one copy is actually stored) and appimages don’t, it has several copies of the same dependencies.
Appimages also sometimes don’t even contain everything your system needs to run them, which can cause issues if the host system doesn’t have it. So it can frequently fail at the main touted usecase: portability!
And don’t get me started on stuff like theming, lack of app updates, worse Wayland support (the main dev even flat out refusing to merge Wayland fixes as he is ideologically opposed to it), and downloading programs via a browser like on a Windows system.
Not to mention having to browse to a specific folder and running the appimage every time, unless you do tedious work to add them to your app launcher, or you have a program that acts as an appimage launcher, which is again more tedious setup.
That isn’t the amount of space it’s using. This has been explained to you. Stop intentionally misleading people.
And what’s with the writing in caps? Just write like a normal person.
Appimages have waaaaaaaay worse theming issues lol. No appimage can integrate with system theming, Flatpak does.
You clearly don’t understand what I meant when I mentioned updates. Or maybe you did and were just trying to mislead again. My point was that flatpaks don’t have a mechanism for updating, unless the developer builds an updater service into the program, like apps do in Windows. The official way to update appimages is to open your browser and go to each individual piece of software’s download page, then download it.
Yes I’m aware there are appimage managers and launchers. But that’s more setup, more tinkering, and isn’t a part of the appimage standard. You may as well be saying “what do you mean downloading apps on Windows is a pain? There’s Chocolatey and a Ghocolatey GUI for app management!” Like yeah, cool, but it’s a separate hacked-on project. Not part of the actual appimage standard.
Downloading appimages via a browser is very much the intended usecase.
There’s a reason why appimages don’t get much support but Flatpak does. Bluntly, because they’re a far worse solution.
You clearly don’t know what that means. Since Flatpaks do have a mechanism for updating, that statement cannot be a Freudian slip.
A Freudian slip essentially means revealing secret thoughts or feelings through misspeaking, it doesn’t just mean parsing a sentence wrong. It’s not my secret thought that Flatpaks actually can’t update and any updates pushed to them have actually been a collective hallucination of everybody who uses them.
Now are you going to address the actual point that I was making? Of course not.
Alright, you were right, flatpaks don’t use 6GIB for 6 applications, I am very sorry, they use 4 GIB KEK.
Again with the lies.
I have 61 flatpaks installed and it totals under 5GiB. HuR dUr FiRefOx fLatPaK usEs 3GiB
Wow you are really trying to mislead here.
No, Firefox doesn’t take up multiple gigabytes of space. It shares a runtime with a bunch of other programs. So yeah if you literally install one Flatpak, it’ll prompt you to download a bunch of extra stuff, but after that it won’t. Most people don’t only install one program on their PCs, so it’s not much of an issue.
Flatpak has deduplication, which appimages doesn’t have. If you install a load of appimages and a bunch of flatpaks, the flatpaks should take up less space, because Flatpak uses deduplication (i.e. only one copy is actually stored) and appimages don’t, it has several copies of the same dependencies.
Appimages also sometimes don’t even contain everything your system needs to run them, which can cause issues if the host system doesn’t have it. So it can frequently fail at the main touted usecase: portability!
And don’t get me started on stuff like theming, lack of app updates, worse Wayland support (the main dev even flat out refusing to merge Wayland fixes as he is ideologically opposed to it), and downloading programs via a browser like on a Windows system.
Not to mention having to browse to a specific folder and running the appimage every time, unless you do tedious work to add them to your app launcher, or you have a program that acts as an appimage launcher, which is again more tedious setup.
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That isn’t the amount of space it’s using. This has been explained to you. Stop intentionally misleading people.
And what’s with the writing in caps? Just write like a normal person.
Appimages have waaaaaaaay worse theming issues lol. No appimage can integrate with system theming, Flatpak does.
You clearly don’t understand what I meant when I mentioned updates. Or maybe you did and were just trying to mislead again. My point was that flatpaks don’t have a mechanism for updating, unless the developer builds an updater service into the program, like apps do in Windows. The official way to update appimages is to open your browser and go to each individual piece of software’s download page, then download it.
Yes I’m aware there are appimage managers and launchers. But that’s more setup, more tinkering, and isn’t a part of the appimage standard. You may as well be saying “what do you mean downloading apps on Windows is a pain? There’s Chocolatey and a Ghocolatey GUI for app management!” Like yeah, cool, but it’s a separate hacked-on project. Not part of the actual appimage standard.
Downloading appimages via a browser is very much the intended usecase.
There’s a reason why appimages don’t get much support but Flatpak does. Bluntly, because they’re a far worse solution.
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You clearly don’t know what that means. Since Flatpaks do have a mechanism for updating, that statement cannot be a Freudian slip.
A Freudian slip essentially means revealing secret thoughts or feelings through misspeaking, it doesn’t just mean parsing a sentence wrong. It’s not my secret thought that Flatpaks actually can’t update and any updates pushed to them have actually been a collective hallucination of everybody who uses them.
Now are you going to address the actual point that I was making? Of course not.
Again with the lies.
I have 61 flatpaks installed and it totals under 5GiB. HuR dUr FiRefOx fLatPaK usEs 3GiB
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You know what’s VERY TERRIBLE? appimages. Really bad kek. wtf. kek kek.
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Mate, you’re spreading misinformation about a packaging format and going on all-caps rages about how great the one you use is.
You’re projecting so hard that I’m considering calling you IMAX.