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> But the downside is enormous bloat If you think Linux can have "enormous bloat" then Windows bloat by the same standards is terrifyingly humongous (and slow!
by sidkshatriya 7mo ago
> But the downside is enormous bloat
If you think Linux can have "enormous bloat" then Windows bloat by the same standards is terrifyingly humongous (and slow!).
- Asooka 7mo agoIt is.
- MarkusWandel 7mo agoWell, all those years ago, my testbed for installing and trying out FreeBSD was a 486 with 8MB of memory. That was a heck of a machine compared to the ones BSD grew up on, and it ran great. No GUI on that setup of course, but all the Unixy stuff... vi editor, C toolchain, NFS etc. I don't know what's the minimum system to run no-GUI mainline Linux on these days. I'm sure BSD has gotten bloated too, but I'll bet not as much.
- adiabatichottub 7mo agoStock FreeBSD is about 1.5GB. If you really strip it down to a barebones OS it's about 300MB.
- throwaway27448 7mo agoIronically windows still ships without basic functionality