Re:Some software bloat is OK
by cpt_sobel on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @05:27AM
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The latest MS Teams update on MacOS fetched an installer that asked me for 1.2GB (Yes, G!) of disk space...
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Re:Some software bloat is OK
by thaumasiotes on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @08:52AM
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I recently set up a new virtual machine with xubuntu when I stopped being able to open my virtualbox image.
Turns out modern ubuntu will only install Firefox as a snap. And snap will then automatically grow to fill your entire hard drive for no good reason.
I'm not quite sure how people decided this was an approach to package management that made sense.