I couldn't get Discord running on #voidlinux by using their official package, so I decided to try out #flatpak. There's a significant buy-in when using that system to say the least! It added over 1GiB of stuff to install one app. I hope a bunch of it is shared stuff, otherwise this thing has got to go.
It sucks that mapping Discord to bitlbee is such a pain since most Discord servers have a bazillion channels...
@kungtotte. Flatpaks isolate dependencies right?
@MOTT who knows? It installed four packages including the Discord package anyway: org.freedesktop.Platform, org.freedesktop.Platform.html5-codecs, and org.freedesktop.Platform.VAAPI.Intel
Those seem like shared resources to me, but it ate up ~1.3GiB of space whereas a directly installed Discord is more like 150MiB
@kungtotte I know that it isolated dependencies to some extent. Someone was complaining that a snap package for a calculator app was a few hundred megabytes. These containers increase security and decrease it's reliance on external dependancies, which makes it more portable.
@MOTT meanwhile I can download a Nextcloud client as an AppImage and get a 96MB self-contained executable file that I can just run without installing anything. It won't run in a sandbox, that's true, but then you shouldn't be running things you don't trust on your system regardless of if they're sandboxed or not.
@kungtotte Yeah. My Bible app is distributed in one way as an AppImage, and it is around 150MB.
