• @[email protected]
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    21 day ago

    This is true for the code part, but executables can also contain data does compress well and maybe not be compressed inside the EXE (e.g. - to avoid the need to decompress it on every run)

    • @[email protected]
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      122 hours ago

      Well sure but most exes I download are installers, where decompression only needs to happen once.

      • @[email protected]
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        118 hours ago

        I’ve been on Linux for so long, I already forgot about having to download a zip file with an installer that installs a downloader that downloads and installs the actual application.