For context: I habe a PC with an 8gb SSD and I somehow need to get an app on there that only has a flatpak release

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    3 days ago

    Sort of, actually

    I was trying to build a PC just to play internet radio on using Shortwave, and a 30€ thin client with 4 1,5Ghz cores and no active cooling, 4 gigs of ram and an 8gb ssd were more than enough for that

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      2 days ago

      look into NixOS! there might already be a package for it. and NixOS can be very good about not duplicating dependencies.

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        I had a 200 gb ssd on my laptop and kept running out of space because all the old generations from nixos,

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          nix collect-garbage, comrade! there’s also another command to clean up older generations. if you’re using git to version your nix config, you only really need to keep two generations: the current, and your last successful boot, since you can recover by git checkout.

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      For your use case, building from source might be more practical.