Comment on A fresh install of Signal takes up 410MB, blowing both Firefox and Chromium out of the water
Vilian@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
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
AProfessional@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Windows doesn’t support deduplication itself. It actually won’t help here because every electron app bundles different versions in practice.
Username@feddit.de 5 months ago
Back in the day Signal was a Qt app, did that change?
AProfessional@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Maybe you are thinking of Telegram?
Signal is electron github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/tree/main