Comment on A fresh install of Signal takes up 410MB, blowing both Firefox and Chromium out of the water
alyth@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoi am doing a full system upgrade and something wants to build chromium from source. i let it run in the background and cloning the repository alone has downloaded 33GB wtf 😭 Image
irotsoma@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, I had to move away from Arch Linux because lots of apps you have to build and Electron was one of the biggest culprits for using tons of disk space and time because it builds Chromium in its entirety from source. Electron is a great way to shift the cost of cross platform development from you to your customers.