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?

  • pinknoise
    3·
    3 years ago

    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 years ago

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

      • pinknoise
        2·
        3 years ago

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

        • blank_sl8
          3·
          3 years ago

          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 years ago

            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