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
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
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