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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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GIMP 3.0.0 RC1 Released (gitlab.gnome.org)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Appimage doesn't do deduplication where possible like Flatpak does, where did you get the idea that Flatpak packages are bigger?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I was also wondering about this. Flatpaks apparently come with more libraries to interact with other Flatpaks, whereas AppImages tend be purely app-specific and their libraries are compressed for their usage only.