A fresh install of Signal takes up 410MB, blowing both Firefox and Chromium out of the water
A fresh install of Signal takes up 410MB, blowing both Firefox and Chromium out of the water
... and I can't even continue the chat from my phone.
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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
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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.
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Back in the day Signal was a Qt app, did that change?
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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
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