@InternetPirate Fedora it is has all the good and new stuff without being unstable. Will switch to Silverblue for an even more stable experience sometime soon.
There is a heck of a lot of opinion in this article. GNOME itself and the direction they’ve taken has been a source of endless debate.
I remember the time they took out the transparency options in GNOME Terminal for the same reasons used in this article. One person’s “bloat” is another persons much loved feature.
I mean the ideal solution here is include all of those features by default and then allow users to turn them off/remove them as they please
Personally I think pretty much everything included in gnome is pretty essential to a standard desktop experience, if you start chopping bits off and don’t have anything to replace them with you end up with a nonfunctional system as far as the average user is concerned
Gnome is mostly removing features to make maintenance easier for them. They’d rather push the narrative that there is one right way to do things and settings are unnecessary. Needless to say, this has bit them in the bum many times and will continue to do so as time goes on. Remember how adamant they were about a sidedock with no option to change it?
Arch is also not more lightweight than other distributions.
With Arch, unlike other distributions, there are no extra dev packages. Thus, everything is present in a single package, so they require more storage space.
Arch’s packages also have fixed dependencies on other packages, which in turn have other dependencies. So you can’t only install what you actually want, which is often claimed. For example, I would like to uninstall various Bluetooth packages, but I can’t because they are dependencies for packages I use.
The basic installation including base-devel requires more than 1 GB of storage space without the GUI. Some distributions need less including the GUI.
There are indeed more lightweight distros. But if you want something that “works out of the box”, contrary to, say, PuppyLinux or Gentoo, then Arch is interesting.
It is however harder to configure than Fedora, Manjaro, SuSE, etc. It’s a great inbetween.
linux
Hot
This magazine is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.