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Re:Debian KDE: Right Linux distribution for professional dig... by abenga on Saturday June 01, 2024 @02:05AM (#40543282)
Could be big, depending on how much room you give to /. All my Linux life, I have allocated about 50GB to the root partition and it's been adequate, leaving enough room for my data (on a 512GB drive). Now I install one flatpak and I start getting low disk space warnings.
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Re:Debian KDE: Right Linux distribution for professional dig... by jcelerier on Saturday June 01, 2024 @09:05AM (#40545407)
That's also a big reason why I prefer appimages.

ossia score's AppImage is 100 megabytes: https://github.com/ossia/score/releases/tag/v3.2.0

Inside, there's:

- Qt 6 (core, widgets, gui, network, qml, qtquick, serial port, websockets and a few others) and all its dependencies excluding xcb (so freetype, harfbuzz, etc. which I build with fairly more recent versions than many distros provide)

- ffmpeg 6

- libllvm & libclang

- the faust compiler (https://faust.grame.fr)

- many random protocol & hardware bindings / implementations and their dependencies (sdl)

- portaudio

- ysfx

with Flatpak I'd be looking at telling my users to install a couple GB (which is not acceptable, I was already getting comments that "60 MB are too much" when it was 60 MB a few years ago).

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Re:Debian KDE: Right Linux distribution for professional dig... by curt15 on Saturday June 01, 2024 @02:18PM (#40547898)
How do you manage software with large assets? A single game can take 10-100GB of storage.
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Re:Debian KDE: Right Linux distribution for professional dig... by abenga on Sunday June 02, 2024 @05:31AM (#40552734)
My steam library is on another drive (I have multiple O(TBs) large spinning-rust drives on the desktop). The nvme is strictly the base system + apt packages + build tools + /home/.
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Re:Debian KDE: Right Linux distribution for professional dig... by semi-extrinsic on Saturday June 01, 2024 @04:39PM (#40548900)
I also shun the snap bullshit. But TBH I haven't divided my disks into more than one partition (except from /boot and EFI stuff) for many many years now.
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