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  • Why would you want the app devs to make that? The whole problem with distro-specific packages is having to package for multiple formats and it’s a painstaking process that really isn’t worth any amount of time investment at all. If you’re an app developer, you’d much rather just make a universal package and hope that some distro package maintainer packages your app for their distro. That’s just basic common sense…








  • lastweakness@lemm.eetoPrivacy Guides@lemmy.one2FA app
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    2 years ago

    Just checked, you’re right about Google. Microsoft does allow you to use any app though. It’s funny that the “EEE” Microsoft is less anti-user than the “Don’t be evil” Google. But anyway, seeing how Google locks it down, I’m sure there must be others too. So you’re right




  • The huge-looking sizes are not representative of actual size on disk. On first installation of one app of a kind, their runtime packages get installed as well. For example, installing GNOME apps will install the latest GNOME runtime. But after that, installing any other GNOME app takes little to no space.

    In your case, you don’t seem to have any apps installed as Flatpaks, which means even the freedesktop runtimes are missing and need to be installed. That’s probably why it looks so huge.