Oh, worry not, because it is most definitely bloated beyond repair. The standard installation takes 40GB. A big chunk of that is for the btrfs snapshots, but yeah, they’re also quite the opposite of thrifty when it comes to the number of packages they hand out.
I mean, I don’t want to sell this as an advantage, but it did kind of “cure” me. I used to care for the number of packages, but now that I could at best chip a few MB away at 40GB, I’ve given up that battle and my life has in no way become worse.
In fact, I’d say it has become slightly better, because I don’t anymore have to figure out which optional dependencies I’m missing – basically all of them get pulled in when I’m installing an application – and I have had situations where I was without internet, but the many pre-installed applications (that I never need) had the features that I needed.
I mean, there is legitimate use-cases where fewer packages are nice, and I will say that openSUSE Tumbleweed loves to push out updates for thousands of packages every few weeks, so without a fast internet connection the number of packages will be painful, but yeah, usually it’s a lot less big of a deal than people make it out to be.
Oh, worry not, because it is most definitely bloated beyond repair. The standard installation takes 40GB. A big chunk of that is for the btrfs snapshots, but yeah, they’re also quite the opposite of thrifty when it comes to the number of packages they hand out.
I mean, I don’t want to sell this as an advantage, but it did kind of “cure” me. I used to care for the number of packages, but now that I could at best chip a few MB away at 40GB, I’ve given up that battle and my life has in no way become worse.
In fact, I’d say it has become slightly better, because I don’t anymore have to figure out which optional dependencies I’m missing – basically all of them get pulled in when I’m installing an application – and I have had situations where I was without internet, but the many pre-installed applications (that I never need) had the features that I needed.
I mean, there is legitimate use-cases where fewer packages are nice, and I will say that openSUSE Tumbleweed loves to push out updates for thousands of packages every few weeks, so without a fast internet connection the number of packages will be painful, but yeah, usually it’s a lot less big of a deal than people make it out to be.