Sometimes they were faster but there certainly were more “bloated” - you can find people complaining about it from the era. But they really did have tons of op

Sometimes they were faster but there certainly were more “bloated” - you can find people complaining about it from the era. But they really did have tons of options and once you were used to them, you really wanted them. But remember that GNU grew up in the era of multi-user systems; and Linux was the forefront of “personal computing Unix” where the user had root.