Hacker News Reader

> Distributions that heavily push Flatpak, like Fedora Silverblue/Kinoite, Endless OS and elementaryOS, strictly push Flatpak for applications. As a side effect, these distributions have a really small base install as well. As an example, an Endless OS install takes roughly 4.2 GB

4.2gb is a "really small base install" ????? WHAT

the windows users are infecting linux, and it shows

the amount of bloat these days is insane

View on HN

The default install of Ubuntu is in the neighborhood of 15GB. When comparing full on general purpose desktop environment distros, 4.2GB is pretty reasonable. Obviously if you're using a hand-tuned Arch or something you can get a much smaller base install size for your needs.

Ubuntu 22.04 desktop, the normal installation with LibreOffice and other extras, is about 7.1GB for me in a VM.

You can also start with minimal(-ish) Ubuntu Server and generally add the packages you want.

700 MB arch is (btw). Coming with nothing but the essentials.

Things like this is why there's elitism in arch community and why it has such a nice and loyal user base with such a great wiki.

Not even basic tools like vi, though.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com