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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Flatpak can look daunting... (feddit.de)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Pantherina@feddit.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Disclaimer

Flatpak uses OSTree, like Fedora Atomic Desktops (Silverblue, Kinoite etc) and similar to BTRFS snapshots.

So many files are deduplicated and linked, not actually there

https://gitlab.com/TheEvilSkeleton/flatpak-dedup-checker

50GB without
31GB with deduplication
21,4GB with BTRFS compression

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[–] drwankingstein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Flatlack is weird. Sometimes it's really good, but then other times depending on what you install it really bloons up.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

Those are unmaintained apps and you probably shouldnt use them. Poorly this is not as obvious and cant be enforced.