@alyth to Mildly InfuriatingEnglish • 8 months agoA fresh install of Signal takes up 410MB, blowing both Firefox and Chromium out of the waterimagemessage-square186arrow-up1510arrow-down136file-text
arrow-up1474arrow-down1imageA fresh install of Signal takes up 410MB, blowing both Firefox and Chromium out of the water@alyth to Mildly InfuriatingEnglish • 8 months agomessage-square186file-text
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•8 months agothe solution could be deduplication, not sure if microsoft store has it, or windows supports it, this help with the size, bot not ram usage
minus-square@AProfessionallinkEnglish5•edit-28 months agoWindows doesn’t support deduplication itself (though ntfs does support hardlinks if someone wanted to do it). It actually won’t help here because every electron app bundles different versions in practice.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•8 months agoBack in the day Signal was a Qt app, did that change?
minus-square@AProfessionallinkEnglish3•edit-27 months agoMaybe you are thinking of Telegram? I’m not sure of its past, this repo goes back 4 years, but Signal is electron https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/tree/main
the solution could be deduplication, not sure if microsoft store has it, or windows supports it, this help with the size, bot not ram usage
Windows doesn’t support deduplication itself (though ntfs does support hardlinks if someone wanted to do it). It actually won’t help here because every electron app bundles different versions in practice.
Back in the day Signal was a Qt app, did that change?
Maybe you are thinking of Telegram?
I’m not sure of its past, this repo goes back 4 years, but Signal is electron https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/tree/main