alyth@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 days agoA fresh install of Signal takes up 410MB, blowing both Firefox and Chromium out of the waterlemmy.worldimagemessage-square182fedilinkarrow-up1506arrow-down134file-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 · 20 days agomessage-square182fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareAProfessional@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-219 days 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-up4·19 days agoBack in the day Signal was a Qt app, did that change?
minus-squareAProfessional@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-218 days 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