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Why Flatpak Won and Snap and AppImage Didn't. - Cameron Knauff (youtube.com)
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[–] Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago

I believe it's a consequence of how flatpaks are sandboxed. The software itself might be small, but that sandbox also has to contain every dependency that software requires. It can get distressing when you're on a 500GB ssd.