root is 32+ GB, everything but /home and swap Ubuntu I guess one alternative is to find non-snap installs. I don't have a lot of obscure software installed, so concerns for conflicts of packae levels are probably minimal. Yes, I know ubuntu is evil, but i fear trying to learn something new. Is there any possibility snaps will de-duplicate in the future, or does the basis for how they work make that impossible? could something like $path be made custom for every directory in my path, meaning if I am running a progrm in one directory, it would modify the path ONLY FOR those programs. it seems to me that this way I could have several versions of some basic tool installed, and different applications would just automatically use the correct one. Hate to repeat an old refrain, but that is how mainframes handle many different requirements. is there a ubuntu with flatpacks instead of snaps? anything written to help us ubuntu-morons transition to flatpacks by otherwise looking like ubuntu? Carey
On 08/09/2025 4:02 PM CDT Steve Litt via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org> wrote:
CAREY SCHUG via Talk said on Sat, 9 Aug 2025 11:24:58 -0500 (CDT)
I am getting concerned about the disk space consumed by snap.
flatpacks purportedly "deduplicate" and save disk space.
what is the down side to flatpacks so they have not completely replaced snap?
Snaps require a specific init system: systemd. Therefore, snaps are dead to me.
Modern flatpacks have no such limitation.
Therefore, if I had to use one of these two package types, it would absolutely be flatpack, whether or not I would be using systemd at that particular time.
How small is your disk?
SteveT
Steve Litt
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