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by sp332 1000 days ago
The Windows installer is 1/3 the size of the Mac one. It's just kinda surprising.
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The macOS installer is a universal installer. Meaning it contains the entire app twice. Once for Intel and one for Apple Silicon. With a macOS installer for only one architecture its size would be cut in half. Windows don't have this problem.