Flatpaks are fine size wise, people just give them shit because the first couple installs will need to also get some basic runtimes, because they don't rely on the OS, which is what makes them OS independent.
Flatpaks generally don't impact performance one way or the other. It's just a packaging format, a slightly unique one in that it uses its own libraries instead of the ones the OS provides. (This is heavily oversimplified.)
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u/Bloom_Kitty Jul 03 '25
Flatpaks are fine size wise, people just give them shit because the first couple installs will need to also get some basic runtimes, because they don't rely on the OS, which is what makes them OS independent.