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		bigyabai 1 day ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mouser: An open source alternative to Logi-Plus mo... The unzipped binary is 2.2mb, all the rest in Qt dependencies by the look of it. 44mb really isn't that offensive for a statically linked app anyhow.

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userbinator 1 day ago [–]

44MB is roughly the size of a Windows 95 installation.

bigyabai 21 hours ago | [–]

Both Windows 95 and Mouser are statically linked to a complex UI framework.

If you can solve the cross-platform GUI problem without Electron, be my guest. This is a perfectly acceptable app size for a modern macOS or Windows system.

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