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Why Flatpak Won and Snap and AppImage Didn't. - Cameron Knauff (youtube.com)
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[–] SamueruSama@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago

This is because flatpak apps depend on flatpak runtimes, so the app will download the entire runtime it needs when you dont have it installed already.

This is bad because a lot of flatpak runtimes like the GNOME runtime only have one year of support, so you blow a lot of storage in practice