Its even worse when you force Firefox to use wayland its icon doesnβt even show.
Edit: Oh since everyone now is confused; I only have the flatpak version of Firefox installed yet it doesnβt use the pinned icon and doesnβt even use the firefox icon under wayland at all.
I mostly agree with those points.
Flatpak does support sharing βlibrariesβ (although not in the way you mean), however from my perspective the main problem is developers referencing Kde-Framework-420.69.1
, and others referencing Kde-Framework-420.69.1-rc1
or various other variations of very similar dependencies, which tends to eat up additional disk space. Iβm personally not too bothered by it, but thatβs only because I have the storage space for that.
With flatpakβs shtick being isolation and a consistent runtime environment, I doubt thereβll be true sharing of linked libraries and the associated memory space, so excess RAM usage and disk space as youβve mentioned.
The distros based on Flatpak (canβt remember the names right now sadly) are mostly immutable ones, where the base system remains untouched, and in that scenario I think it makes the most sense, particularly in education.
The instances I use flatpak are slightly similar to that, with the difference being the libraries available in the base system may be too old to run the application natively
I believe the immutable distros youβre referring to are Fedora Silverblue and Fedora Kinoite.