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?
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?
Wasted disk space and bigger attack surface.
Disk space is the only factor. There’s no bigger attack surface you don’t use the packages.
They could have privilege escalation bugs or help hiding and/or running unwanted code.
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.
Yeah, if you don’t have proper sandboxing and use sudo or similiar getting root on a desktop probably isn’t that hard.
Maybe someone should tell browser developers :D