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Why FitGirl won't die: The repacker millions of gamers depend on in an age of surveillance (www.tbsnews.net)

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[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 9 points 8 months ago (1 child)

This implies fitgirl is doing it properly. Which it's trade off faster download longer install times or vice versa.

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[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 13 points 8 months ago

Decompression during install is generally less of a bottleneck than network bandwidth, so fitgirl is doing it properly.

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