Flatpaks have helped me a lot reducing bloat, avoiding dependency hell.
That said, probably there’s some overlapping dependencies that, if installed in a different way I could save some space, but it’s not worth it in my opinion.
I’m also using rootless podman+systemd for certain services, but that’s been a mixed bag compared with plain old docker or LXC.
Flatpaks have helped me a lot reducing bloat, avoiding dependency hell.
That said, probably there’s some overlapping dependencies that, if installed in a different way I could save some space, but it’s not worth it in my opinion.
I’m also using rootless podman+systemd for certain services, but that’s been a mixed bag compared with plain old docker or LXC.
I thought the number one drawback to flatpaks is that they’re enormous because each one includes all its own dependencies
Flatpak is like the most bloated thing ever because of the runtime and all the dependencies it needs.
I did a test, flatpak with just firefox installed used 3 GiB of space.
While 15 appimages that includes heavy applications like libreoffice, kdenlive and two web browsers uses 1.2GiB.