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That's why I don't use them. I love the idea, don't get me wrong, but seeing all these gigabytes being taken away from me hurts. lol
You can save a lot of space by deduplicating the files if you use a file system that supports that (zfs, btrfs, ntfs if you can find a driver the supports it).
Wait, what now?
That sounds awesome!
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I use xfs since it is the only one that I have zero issues with. Also, I don't need flatpaks (rarely do), the AUR basically has everything I personally need.
Flatpak already does deduplicating for you on all filesystems.
I've run into a few programs that rarely got updated on the AUR but got regular Flatpak updates. The AUR wrappers are only so good as the people maintaining them...
I can count my installed AUR programs on my fingers.
Especially when it installs into your home partition. That just feels like my personal space has been invaded. Had to link it to a folder in /opt
Lol. I might do that if I install a flatpak