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		ben-schaaf on July 12, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use... Last time I downloaded factorio it was ~300MB. I think you'll find entire Linux distributions including mesa + Intel and AMD GPU drivers fit in 600mb of data.

smabie on July 12, 2020 [–]

Yeah, sure they're large. And they're a lot smaller on Linux. But 600mb is not "multiple GBs".

duncanawoods on July 12, 2020 | [–]

I say gbs because (not checked recently) they were cached so your nvidia driver folder would be 10s of GB in size. For a driver!

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