I owned a Librem 5 phone and used it as my daily driver for a few months. During this time I exclusively used Flatpaks for my apps that I installed. After installing about 15-20 apps, the 32 GB of internal storage were completely full and my phone stopped working. I had no clue how huge Flatpak apps are.
Even worse, I could not find out which apps to delete. All the space was taken up by excess "runtimes" I don't know or care what a runtime is but I never intentionally installed them. Why are there five different Freedesktop and Gnome runtimes installed? Which app do I delete to get rid of them?
I need to be able to easily answer the questions: "Which app(s) do I delete to free up space?" and "how much space will be freed by deleting app X?"
On flatpak those questions required dark magic beyond my understanding to answer.
Even worse, I could not find out which apps to delete. All the space was taken up by excess "runtimes" I don't know or care what a runtime is but I never intentionally installed them. Why are there five different Freedesktop and Gnome runtimes installed? Which app do I delete to get rid of them?
I need to be able to easily answer the questions: "Which app(s) do I delete to free up space?" and "how much space will be freed by deleting app X?"
On flatpak those questions required dark magic beyond my understanding to answer.