I currently use Manjaro as my daily driver, but it is bloatware to be honest. I want to switch to more minimalist distro so i ended up thinking on Void. So any advice? How is package manager? Community? Softwares? Documentation?

      • blank_sl8
        11·
        3 年前

        What does bloated mean to you? What is the harm in having extra packages installed, if you don’t use them?

        • pinknoise
          3·
          3 年前

          What is the harm in having extra packages installed, if you don’t use them?

          Wasted disk space and bigger attack surface.

          • blank_sl8
            11·
            3 年前

            Disk space is the only factor. There’s no bigger attack surface you don’t use the packages.

            • pinknoise
              2·
              3 年前

              They could have privilege escalation bugs or help hiding and/or running unwanted code.

              • blank_sl8
                3·
                3 年前

                That’s a good point. I’d argue however that if you’re running malicious, unprivileged code on your desktop computer, you’re pretty much screwed regardless, since you likely use sudo frequently and it could just keylog your password. But there are certainly some security downsides to having too many packages installed.

                • pinknoise
                  1·
                  3 年前

                  Yeah, if you don’t have proper sandboxing and use sudo or similiar getting root on a desktop probably isn’t that hard.

                  if you’re running malicious, unprivileged code on your desktop computer, you’re pretty much screwed regardless

                  Maybe someone should tell browser developers :D

        • Linux BeyOP
          1·
          3 年前

          If u have less storage or less ram, bloats effects your system very visibly.For ex manjaro gnome eats 1gb when you open your pc.

          • blank_sl8
            2·
            3 年前

            That’s Gnome, not Manjaro. If I recall, the main Manjaro distribution is based on XFCE. If you care so much about bloating, why would you intentionally choose gnome, which is widely known to be heavy weight?