There's less feature-rich versions of Linux out there that will run comfortably in less than 2GB. If that's what you're after, use one of them. Of course all s

There's less feature-rich versions of Linux out there that will run comfortably in less than 2GB. If that's what you're after, use one of them. Of course all software could be faster. It could also be more secure, more feature-rich, more user friendly, smaller and "better" in any number of other ways. But developers don't have infinite time to focus on all of them. So they have to make tradeoffs, and the fact that most people default to the more feature-rich OSs rather than the lightweight ones, suggests that this is the place that the average user would rather the devs spend most of their time.