I always called them fat paks, and avoided them for their large size. I always preferred appimages… much much smaller. However flatpaks popularity seems overwhelming. On my SSD, I’m basically only using the first partition for Linux Mint, which I’m very content with. The other 2 partition were for when I installed other Linux distros to play with. When I setup the system partition, I thought 40GB was more than enough. But when I started using Flatpaks, free space didn’t last long. I don’t have any current flatpaks. I could combine those 3 partitions into a 200GB partition (increasing my root space 5X) and install Linux Mint there pointing to my existing Linux Mint home directory. I wonder it that would increase the life of my SSD which has been beating on that first partition for years? The other areas rarely see any action.
