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(Get the code!)
I also can confirm that this issue persists in Ubuntu 20.04 (focal). It's pretty irritating... it's bad enough that all of these Electron-based apps and chromium-based browsers are chewing up ~400-500Mb each. I don't need a silly software management UI doing it, too!
I recognize that gnome-software may not be a default-installed package on Ubuntu 20.04, but it
still is widely used (I have several Flatpaks I need for work, and gnome-software offers the ability to easily install and coordinate their updates). Can't some developers at Red Hat and Canonical put their heads together for a few minutes and get this corrected, please?
I also will second Meluco's comment. We should not all have to buy new 32Gb laptops just to run a simple productivity workstation.
This really needs to get corrected. I am seeing reports of memory leaks in gnome-software going back as far as Ubuntu 16.04.