Re:Cosmic Desktop: Closing in on a Cosmic Alpha
by mmstick76 on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @03:58PM
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It's possible to install the `cosmic-store`, but it will be some time before it's ready to replace the elementary appcenter.
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Re:Cosmic Desktop: Closing in on a Cosmic Alpha
by winrid on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @04:25PM
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I don't see any kind of db in cosmic-store's dependencies. So is it going to have the exact same memory usage problems as elementary appcenter?
Re:Cosmic Desktop: Closing in on a Cosmic Alpha
by mmstick76 on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @05:47PM
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Where the elementary appcenter needs 900 MB, and KDE Discover needs 600 MB, the COSMIC Store needs only 60 MB. The COSMIC Store uses serde to serialize package metadata into a bitcode format, which uses significantly less memory and enables rapid application startup times. As a result, it does not need to run in the background, and it can search the entire database in realtime within 5ms.