janAkali

I like mongolian tea in the morning: very strong tea + half cup milk with butter and salt.

3gb CSV file goes brrrr....

Joplin (FOSS and probably general go-to for cross-platform open source notes in general but is a bit of a memory hog)

This comment describes my frustration with modern software.
How could a note taking app be a memory hog? You could type out a whole War and Piece and it shouldn't take more than couple megabytes to store it.

Flatpaks and Snaps become more efficient in terms of storage usage the more you use them...

I'm not disagreeing with that, but how many apps an average user requires that he can't find in the distro's repository? And how many snaps he should have installed, so it'd be more space-efficient than appimages, 10? 20? 30?

hint: for me - one is too many.

Flatpak and Snap share dependencies while Appimage doublicates all of them...

On the other hand, appimage only includes the libraries actually required by an app. Where Snap/Flatpack install big fat runtimes.
I've recently made a very simple gtk4 app and packaged it with all dependencies into a 10mb appimage you can just download and run. The very same app would rely on 250+ mb gtk4 runtime with snap.
And I could be fine with that; but no, it's not that simple, you'll have x3 gtk4 runtimes on your system. Because snap keeps 3 last versions of every snap pkg and it's dependencies. I don't know what flatpack installs, but it's not efficient in that regard either.

2-3 gigs of libraries a program might not even need. It's just wasted space for an average linux user. And if I was fine with that, I would be using Windows right now.

Yes.. kinda!?
First point is space requirement, second one is a design issue. They are directly connected, I'm not arguing that.

Unless you trying to replace half your system with appimages, appimages take less space in practice .

Yes, sizes might be inaccurate - it's been about a year last time I tried snap or flatpak. All I remember is that snap installs around 300 mb gtk3 runtime and it's often 2 or more of them, because different snaps might rely on different gtk versions + other dependencies.
And I remember that when snap and flatpak compared, allegedly flatpak requires more storage space.

I am aware that runtime sizes doesn't scale with number of packages past maybe 3-4, but I have only 4 appimages on my system right now and they take ~200 mb, it is absurd that I'd need 10 times more space allocated for the same (or worse) functionality.

Appimages cant be easily ran from terminal, you need to link them to your Path.

On many distros "~/.local/bin" is already in PATH, that's where I put my appimages, then make them executable and it just works.

Why I hate snaps/flatpak:

• 1
  • package/appimage ~80mb
  • snap/flatpak >500mb
• 2
  • p/a - app + dependencies
  • s/f - app + minimal linux distribution
• 3
  • p/a - can be easily run from terminal
  • s/f - flatpak run com.very.easy.to.remember.and.type.name

At the moment of separation of RSDRP mensheviks were in fact a minority of the party. And intersting enough, it's not the given name, that's what they named their faction after bolsheviks came up with their name.

It won't work if we are already their demons.

I use Librewolf (Firefox fork with enabled protections against trackers and spyware) with uBlock origin. And I had no issues so far with youtube.

P.S. Also, couldn't remember the last time I saw "please turn off adblock" nagging on random websites... or an ad...