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by zamalek 1038 days ago
On my old NVIDIA (never again) laptop, Flatpak left around 30GB of NVIDIA runtimes lying around. Each version approaches 1GB in size, and Flatpak will install updates for all versions of the driver you have ever installed. Downloading a few GBs just to update Firefox is just bloody annoying, even with cheap disk space and fast internet. Fixing it was easy enough, but it took figuring out what's going on, and requires regular maintenance (two things the target user for this project probably wouldn't know how to do).

The drivers also never work properly. I've attempted to use several official game flatpaks, and have run into various forms of crashes (including the entire system stalling).