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[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] slappyfuck@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What’s wrong with balena etcher?

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It’s hundreds of megabytes for something that unetbootin, image writer, and others do in a couple of MBs.

[–] slappyfuck@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

Oh dang, is that the overheard of the software framework it uses? I think that’s what this thread was about but I can’t remember.

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Steam UI uses chromium embedded framework which saves 50% of the ram and startup time.