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Because bloat is like government. Multiple people might agree that there's too much of it, but they don't necessarily agree on which parts should be gotten rid
by drabiega 11y ago
Because bloat is like government. Multiple people might agree that there's too much of it, but they don't necessarily agree on which parts should be gotten rid of.
- omegaham 11y agoThis. As always, there's a relevant xkcd[1]. Features that I might decry as bloat are probably someone else's "necessary, to be preserved at all costs" features. If you want to cover a large number of use cases, you have to include all of them. And with that comes bloat. There's a reason why even a minimalist CLI-only Linux installation requires more than 24MB of RAM when Windows 3.1 runs on 3MB - the Linux kernel is capable of a hell of a lot more. [1]https://xkcd.com/1172/ https://xkcd.com/1172/
- kazinator 11y agoA minimalist CLI-only Linux installation was still possible in around in 2 megs of RAM in 1994. A minimalist XWindow installation was possible with a 40 megabyte hard drive and 4 megs of RAM over a 386 CPU. (That's similar specs to what 68K-based Sun workstations had perhaps a decade before that.)