Just ignore “bloat” on principle. It’s a meaningless term and leads to much suffering.
Untold numbers of systems have been made unbootable, untold years of time wasted, trying to get rid of “bloat”.
The most “bloated” distro in the world is probably a default Slackware installation.
It installs every single package in its repo. Including several desktop environments and every single KDE program.
And it’s just 2/3 of the size of a Windows installation.
Just ignore “bloat” on principle. It’s a meaningless term and leads to much suffering.
Untold numbers of systems have been made unbootable, untold years of time wasted, trying to get rid of “bloat”.
The most “bloated” distro in the world is probably a default Slackware installation.
It installs every single package in its repo. Including several desktop environments and every single KDE program.
And it’s just 2/3 of the size of a Windows installation.