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    Bloat (lemmy.zip)
    submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    [–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Seriously what's in there? Last ISO I've used with size like this came with 6 different DEs. Ubuntu ships only Gnome IIRC

    [–] [email protected] 65 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

    Every driver you could possibly need for any hardware in the last 20 years? This is a live CD and is expected to just work no matter what you’re running it on.

    Edit: Also, of course, every program you might need to usefully test-drive a distro, like office apps, media players, image viewers, browser, email client, and a myriad more. Now that I’ve said it I find 6GB remarkably small.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    Fedoras iso is 2 gb

    [–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    Fedora also by default includes only free stuff. AFAIK Ubuntu includes non free codecs for media and other software that doesn't fit in FOSS category (it's also one of t the reasons why Ububtu became so popular in my opinion, it just works works out of the box)

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    Fedora includes non free firmware as per there policy

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

    doesn't include nvidia drivers, doesn't include codecs needed to play proprietary media.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

    Ubuntu ships only Gnome IIRC

    ~~Unity is it's default.~~

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    Ubuntu switched back to GNOME as default six years ago

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    Dunno how or why, but I forgot about that.

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

    Probably the last time you dared try Ubuntu! 😜