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Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project (itsfoss.com)

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[–] Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The tool gdu is very nice for finding space culprits.

Never used Bazzite, but isn't it heavy on packaged apps with snap or flatpak? Inherently space inefficient (and I despise them both passionately).

Don't update all the time. I update every couple of days like a maniac, but once every few weeks is fine too.

There's a distro for every level of "I want to do it myself" vs "I want everything to be made ready for me".

[–] Qwel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It's flatpak. Not snap, by god, not snap.

It's inefficient, but he is stating that he is now using "only 600GB", so I would guess it shouldn't be that notable to someone who thinks 600GB is not much.

I used to dislike it, but consider that Flatpak is allowing a lot of small distros to exist outside of Debian/RHEL/Arch. Void, Chimera, Adélie or Guix (insert yours here) "only" have to implement a desktop environment and Flatpak to be usable. It's not ideal and it kind of goes against the point of those distros, but they definitely couldn't package Flathub's 3300 apps themselves. Especially the proprietary ones that only provide a .deb and .rpm.

Also the sandboxing is nice when installing proprietary stuff. I don't want Microsoft Team drooling all over my stuff.