why is my system downloading 38GB for electron32

- Updates?

- Malware?

- A really heavy software?

Either way, seems like something to look into.

Maybe that’s normal

Sounds like you're accidentally building Chromium from source. That tends to happen to me every few months.

I once accidentally tried to build Java from source six times, and because the app itself was also hybrid java/c++ and massive, each time it took me a bit to notice that the names flying by have weirdly liittle to do with the problem domain and are mostly abstract utilities for parsing.