To be fair. Linux starts of super light, but if used as a general OS it becomes the epitome of bloat.
Linux is like buying a car and just getting only the parking space.
If you want to use your car, first you have to install the door and interior package. Then you get inside and have to install the seat package. But the seat has adjustment levers and uses the gear shifter library because it has levers already defined.
Great now you also have a gear shifter too. But it turns out your transmission doesn’t work on the new version of the library so you have to also install an older package in parallel, so now you have 2 gear shifters, no biggie.
Next up is the steering wheel, it uses the wheels package as a dependency (because both are round and can turn) so now you also have all the wheels. But those are summer tires, you need winter tires.
You get the winter tire package but it needs an older version of the rim package. Unlucky for you, the download for the older rim package is unavailable, but you’re in luck. Some guy included that version of rims in his completed but unrelated car project. So you clone his car and rebuild the rim package yourself. You now have a whole extra car, but it’s not yours.
By the time you got your one car ready to go, you have installed the parts for 7427 different cars, 27 complete vehicles and read 593 pages of documentation.
I think i get what you’re saying…but its a pretty bad analogy. The way i am reading this is, most linux distros are a mish mash of various packages, window managers and apps. Many of which dont work well together, but that really hasnt been the case for the last 10-15 years. Basically when ubuntu and fedora stabilized.
this is just dumb and you should feel bad for spending so much time writing it
I don’t think he did, though he may have touched it up. It’s old. I remember seeing it in the 90s with a number of “if [OS] were an airplane” schticks along the same line. Unix was the one where passengers all brought parts and tools and assembled it on the runway.
You couldn’t be more wrong here, my Arch install has been my daily driver for years, and it’s sitting at a grand total of 846 packages. No reinstall. No avalanche of dependencies. No mythical fleet of 7,000 half-assembled cars in the garage. You don’t need to bolt on a crap-ton of packages just to get a working system…
To be fair. Linux starts of super light, but if used as a general OS it becomes the epitome of bloat.
Linux is like buying a car and just getting only the parking space.
If you want to use your car, first you have to install the door and interior package. Then you get inside and have to install the seat package. But the seat has adjustment levers and uses the gear shifter library because it has levers already defined.
Great now you also have a gear shifter too. But it turns out your transmission doesn’t work on the new version of the library so you have to also install an older package in parallel, so now you have 2 gear shifters, no biggie.
Next up is the steering wheel, it uses the wheels package as a dependency (because both are round and can turn) so now you also have all the wheels. But those are summer tires, you need winter tires. You get the winter tire package but it needs an older version of the rim package. Unlucky for you, the download for the older rim package is unavailable, but you’re in luck. Some guy included that version of rims in his completed but unrelated car project. So you clone his car and rebuild the rim package yourself. You now have a whole extra car, but it’s not yours.
By the time you got your one car ready to go, you have installed the parts for 7427 different cars, 27 complete vehicles and read 593 pages of documentation.
What an absurd and incorrect analogy.
I think i get what you’re saying…but its a pretty bad analogy. The way i am reading this is, most linux distros are a mish mash of various packages, window managers and apps. Many of which dont work well together, but that really hasnt been the case for the last 10-15 years. Basically when ubuntu and fedora stabilized.
this is just dumb and you should feel bad for spending so much time writing it
I have had arch installed on this laptop for 10+ years
today I look at the state of drive space
the OS is at a little less then 37GB of which 18.5GB are cached installs from pacman
cleaning the cache is as simple as paccache
10 years this install has been on this laptop and I use it daily.
Where is the bloat?
I don’t think he did, though he may have touched it up. It’s old. I remember seeing it in the 90s with a number of “if [OS] were an airplane” schticks along the same line. Unix was the one where passengers all brought parts and tools and assembled it on the runway.
oh, copypasta… even worse!
I’ve been using Linux for 10 years and haven’t had this trouble.
I currently use endeavour, but there’s plenty of out of the box distro.
You couldn’t be more wrong here, my Arch install has been my daily driver for years, and it’s sitting at a grand total of 846 packages. No reinstall. No avalanche of dependencies. No mythical fleet of 7,000 half-assembled cars in the garage. You don’t need to bolt on a crap-ton of packages just to get a working system…