In its lifetime Ubuntu has never been bleeding edge nor lightweight compared to many other distros. I'm an Arch user all the way but I still take other distros

In its lifetime Ubuntu has never been bleeding edge nor lightweight compared to many other distros. I'm an Arch user all the way but I still take other distros for a test drive every so often and it amazes me the crap distros bundle together in packages when so many things could be made to be optional dependencies. I guess it all depends on your standard for lightweight :).