It’s so nice seeing portability over binary size winning all around these days. Such a breath of fresh air. There might be legit cases but for some reason so many people are still hang up on ´but binary size’ for no logical reason whatsoever.
According to the article, Cosmo's fat binary dash was 30% larger but ran faster and used less real memory than Alpine's x86-linux-only version.
However there is still probably a 30% overhead for storage and copying.
It does? I would rather argue that portability between desktop OS matters today less than twenty years ago as the niches are carved out, WSL 2 becomes actually usable and the desktop metaphor as a whole declines.