Chris Murphy wrote:
It's untenable to consider ISO size alone. It is a legitimate
concern, but
it can't be reasonable to soak every single CPU, times thousands. You're
willing to exchange less download time for longer install time and higher
energy demand, but there are quite a lot of other uses occurring that are
relevant.
Downloads also require energy, on the client, on the server, on the
intermediate hops, and even for the actual information transmission in the
cables. So I am not convinced that you are going to save any energy by
making the image significantly larger just so that it is faster to
decompress.
(As for the time factor, I already explained how that does not compute
either, at least in large, less-privileged parts of the world.)
Kevin Kofler