Now my arch is bloated more than the default ubuntu

@[email protected] · 1 year ago

Now my arch is bloated more than the default ubuntu

@[email protected] · 1 year ago

Every person who comments about “bloat” in their install should be required to preface their post or comment with a full definition of “bloat.”

This shit is obnoxious.

Agility0971 · 1 year ago

installing more than base, linux, and linux-firmware is bloat.

@[email protected] · 1 year ago

I actually wonder if we could ever agree on a definition?

Maybe:

Bloat: any unnecessary, superfluous software, software package, or feature that is unused or unnecessarily inefficient, and/or uses system resources to an unessasary or unreasonable degree.

What do you guys think? Because then we can still argue about bloat and what reasonable is! And that’s what it’s all about. Arguing for the sake of it!

Agility0971 · 1 year ago

I like this. Maybe it needs some words on bloatware that is enforced on users agains their interests?

@[email protected] · 1 year ago

Bloat is relative to every person / usage case but I agree with this definition.

@[email protected] · 1 year ago

Bloat = making your system usable

annoying people who whine about bloat

caseyweederman · 1 year ago

Anything that’s not kernel

@[email protected] · 1 year ago

Well, also not kernel modules. That counts as bloat.

caseyweederman · 1 year ago

You’re right. And how much of the kernel do we really need, anyway?

Joe Cool · 1 year ago

So GNU?

@[email protected] · 1 year ago

I mean compared to things like Alpine which use musl and busybox you could consider it bloated yes.

caseyweederman · 1 year ago

Just the G actually

@[email protected] · 1 year ago

But the G in GNU stands for GNU

Joe Cool · 1 year ago

reminds me of this totally valid URL: