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This is getting out of control (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/bazzite@lemmy.world
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9.1 GB is pretty big for an ISO. I don't think I've ever waited 2 hours to download a distro

a screenshot of a firefox download for bazzite-deck-stable-live-amd64.iso. It says: "2h 14m left - 42.0 MB of 9.1GB (1.0 MB/sec))"

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[–] 6 points 6 months ago

Just like back in the bad old days. You would leave your computer running overnight to download a few mp3 files.

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    [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    You are right. If I had to guess, maybe because bazzite comes with tons of software? Why is it so big actually, most are under 4

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    I haven't checked lately, but when I gave Bazzite a try around a year ago they had a TON of download options and one of them was a "fully offline" installer, so it was pretty beefy since it had everything they think you could possibly want to install during the initial setup in the iso already. But conversely, I'm pretty sure they had a "minimal" installer that was pretty small, but would need an internet connection during install for anything more than the bare minimum system.

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    • [–] -1 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    8Mb/s is an abysmal download rate. I hope the games you plan on playing aren’t too big.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 6 months ago*

    It ended up getting a bit better after a while, luckily :) I think 8mbps is fine for many games, latency and stability have been issues for me before but not bandwidth.

    Edit: Ah you mean game download times, not online games. Luckily I get like 100 mbps downloading from steam, this download seemed to be bottlenecked server-side?

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