270
I investigated Windows 11's massive 5GB monthly .msu updates, and AI is only part of the problem
(www.windowslatest.com)
this post was submitted on 30 Apr 2026
270 points (96.6% liked)
Technology
84668 readers
4470 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Windows is bloated, always has been. Everytime you install an application you are installing another copy of all the libraries that program uses.
I think now that precompiled binaries for Linux systems are becoming more popular, they will also start to suffer from bloat as well. While the universal nature of SNAPS makes them useful, they will inherently take up a lot more space.
Of course the big difference between the two update systems currently is most Linux systems can update all their programs together. I have always found using repositories way better than hunting down updated packages in Windows or having to let each program individually update itself.
Uh, what do you think was in the repositories all these decades? They can contain just the source, but that's not what most people use.
Ah, so you're talking about those... Yeah, but for those types of packages, including all the dependencies is kind of the point, they're meant to run on whatever distro where the packager has no influence in what libraries and other dependencies of their software is or.isn't present. They also bolt on things like sandboxing, so it's not entirely the same as the distro packages you get through your apt/dnf/zypper/etc.
No you don't.
At least not always.
Example: Visual Studio 2xxx Redistributables
Besides that, the duplication of some parts is higher.
But it can also mitigate dependency hell.
Windows is not bloated! I'm sure windows XP is smaller than debian!
There’s no need to lie to make Windows look bad. You are definitely not installing another copy of all the libraries the program uses. What do you think DLLs are? Why are there so many of them in system directories?
Found the Windows defender!
If you are going to deny that typically Windows uses static linking and bundled dependencies I am not sure we can find common ground to have a discussion.