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When do you consider a system to be bloated? (lemdro.id)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I often hear folks in the Linux community discussing their preference for Arch (and Linux in general) because they can install only the packages they want or need - no bloat.

I've come across users with a couple of hundred packages installed (likely fresh installs), but I've also seen others with thousands.

Personally, I'm currently at 1.7k packages on my desktop and 1.3k on my laptop (both running EndeavourOS). There might be a few packages I could remove, but I don't feel like my system is bloated.

I guess it's subjective, but when do you consider a system to be bloated?

I'm asking as a relatively new Linux user - been daily driving for about 7/8 months

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 7 months ago (13 children)

I find it bloated if the system have things I don't need are noticeably using up RAM and CPU. I couldn't care less about extra unused packages on disk, they're dormant. I don't care about a few daemons or resident apps I don't use either if they're idle all the time and use minimal RAM. Bloat for me is something that noticeably affects my running system.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (9 children)

I would probably add (as a couple of others have already mentioned) if it slows down the update process by pulling loads of software/dependencies that I'm not using.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (8 children)

Who sits and watches the update process?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Gentoo user here. I look at system load while compiling. (: But most of the time I can use my PC while portage is doing it's job.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I mean, for Gentoo users an update is a bit like "track day". So I can understand that. 😀

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