What happens when an immutable OS meets an unstoppable OS?
What happens when an immutable OS meets an unstoppable OS?
Yep that’s all well and good, but what flatpack doesn’t do automatically is clean up unused libs/dependencies, over time you end up with several versions of the same libs. When the apps are upgraded they get the latest version of their dependency and leave the old behind.
10 out of 40 is 25%
10 out of 4000 is 0.25%
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.
I should have noted that I’ll compile myself when we are talking about something that should run as a service on a server.
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.
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.
OP in 10 months:
You have reached the pinnacle of Linux, every other distro you try from now on will seem bland. 🧗🏼