alyth@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoA fresh install of Signal takes up 410MB, blowing both Firefox and Chromium out of the waterlemmy.worldimagemessage-square186fedilinkarrow-up1508arrow-down136file-text
arrow-up1472arrow-down1imageA fresh install of Signal takes up 410MB, blowing both Firefox and Chromium out of the waterlemmy.worldalyth@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square186fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareAProfessional@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-26 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-squareUsername@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 months agoBack in the day Signal was a Qt app, did that change?
minus-squareAProfessional@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-26 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
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