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282 points paulnpace | 1 comments | 22 Oct 25 02:02 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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fujigawa ◴[22 Oct 25 03:34 UTC] No.45664664[source]▶
The most compact, minimalist general purpose OS out there by far. Tiny memory footprint and loaded with network services built-in.

Linux has become so bloated its users can't in good conscience make fun of Microsoft anymore, they are worse.

Debian refuses to install with less than 512MB RAM, the text only installer will choke with less than that, it's pathetic. That's a console-only install, no GUI.

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akimbostrawman ◴[23 Oct 25 06:48 UTC] No.45678932[source]▶
>Linux has become so bloated its users can't in good conscience make fun of Microsoft anymore, they are worse.

Please show me where Linux comes pre installed with ads, ai and other 3rd party adware and uses a start menu written in react that makes your CPU fans spin up when you press it a couple time

There is a enormous difference between bloat for the sake of feature or profit maximizing. If you think gnome and systemd are bloat then simply don't use them.

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1. anthk ◴[23 Oct 25 08:36 UTC] No.45679599[source]▶
The parent commenter stated that even booting in text mode 512MB are not enough. 20 years ago you could run a whole KDE3 stack pretty happily among a live installer if you cared.