cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/435150

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/435149

I want to find the most sustainable operating system, because computers nowadays waste a lot of energy, because of data collection and data processing. Avoiding unnecessary processes and using resources in a mindful way could reduce the CO2 output on the whole world.

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

Appimages with delta-updates would be probably the best alternative to flatpaks which are indeed unnecessarily bloated (basically they force you to install a second fedora based OS)

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

Is there a virtual package manager, which is able to do delta-updates? Currently it looks like I will use Debian (stable) for the main system, but if there would be something like flatpak, which could provide the newest updates for a few applications, it would be just awesome to run those on such a stable system.

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

Not an appstore but works ok: https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageUpdate

Modern Distros ask if they should "integrate" appimages on the first launch.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Oh, nice! This project sounds really interesting. I will try AppImage in my sustainable virtual machine experiment then.