Windows is bloated, always has been. Everytime you install an application you are installing another copy of all the libraries that program uses.
I think now that precompiled binaries for Linux systems are becoming more popular, they will also start to suffer from bloat as well. While the universal nature of SNAPS makes them useful, they will inherently take up a lot more space.
Of course the big difference between the two update systems currently is most Linux systems can update all their programs together. I have always found using repositories way better than hunting down updated packages in Windows or having to let each program individually update itself.
There’s no need to lie to make Windows look bad. You are definitely not installing another copy of all the libraries the program uses. What do you think DLLs are? Why are there so many of them in system directories?
If you are going to deny that typically Windows uses static linking and bundled dependencies I am not sure we can find common ground to have a discussion.
now that precompiled binaries for Linux systems are becoming more popular,
Uh, what do you think was in the repositories all these decades? They can contain just the source, but that’s not what most people use.
While the universal nature of SNAPS makes them useful, they will inherently take up a lot more space.
Ah, so you’re talking about those… Yeah, but for those types of packages, including all the dependencies is kind of the point, they’re meant to run on whatever distro where the packager has no influence in what libraries and other dependencies of their software is or.isn’t present. They also bolt on things like sandboxing, so it’s not entirely the same as the distro packages you get through your apt/dnf/zypper/etc.
Windows is bloated, always has been. Everytime you install an application you are installing another copy of all the libraries that program uses.
I think now that precompiled binaries for Linux systems are becoming more popular, they will also start to suffer from bloat as well. While the universal nature of SNAPS makes them useful, they will inherently take up a lot more space.
Of course the big difference between the two update systems currently is most Linux systems can update all their programs together. I have always found using repositories way better than hunting down updated packages in Windows or having to let each program individually update itself.
There’s no need to lie to make Windows look bad. You are definitely not installing another copy of all the libraries the program uses. What do you think DLLs are? Why are there so many of them in system directories?
Found the Windows defender!
If you are going to deny that typically Windows uses static linking and bundled dependencies I am not sure we can find common ground to have a discussion.
No you don’t.
At least not always.
Example: Visual Studio 2xxx Redistributables
Besides that, the duplication of some parts is higher.
But it can also mitigate dependency hell.
Uh, what do you think was in the repositories all these decades? They can contain just the source, but that’s not what most people use.
Ah, so you’re talking about those… Yeah, but for those types of packages, including all the dependencies is kind of the point, they’re meant to run on whatever distro where the packager has no influence in what libraries and other dependencies of their software is or.isn’t present. They also bolt on things like sandboxing, so it’s not entirely the same as the distro packages you get through your apt/dnf/zypper/etc.
Windows is not bloated! I’m sure windows XP is smaller than debian!