Maybe the real bloat was the apps we needed all along

I never understand this obsession with “bloat” when you can buy a 1 TB SSD for € 50.

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.

Most people in this thread don’t get it.

You know how some people compete to see who can get Doom to run on the craziest platforms, like a calculator?

Installing Arch with the fewest packages is like that. There’s something oddly satisfying about stripping everything back to the most basic level - to make things work for you within the most constrictive environment you enforce for yourself.

It’s like eating a spicy shellfish dinner and super gluing your asshole closed.