For context: I habe a PC with an 8gb SSD and I somehow need to get an app on there that only has a flatpak release

  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
    14·
    4 months ago

    And the only possible way to have that is to burn through disk space?

    • ddh@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      51·
      4 months ago

      As far as I know, yes. You tell me the alternative if you’ve got it.

      If all you’ve got against Flatpak is it uses more storage, then I don’t know what to tell you. I have a 1TB drive that cost $80 and my GNOME system with 106 flatpaks uses just under 7%. The original post claiming 2TB is absurd.

      • DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml
        31·
        4 months ago

        There is no reason that you couldn’t, for instance, bind-mount the host’s nvidia drivers into the container namespace when launching the flatpak. Would avoid having to download the driver again, and reduce runtime memory pressure since the driver code pages would be shared between everything again.

      • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
        11·
        4 months ago

        I don’t have the time to make a “stop doing math” meme for Unix permissions