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If you use Gentoo, you really get to feel the sins of the bloat through accumulating compile times.
and then out of fear of reinstalling everything from scratch you go through your system and debloat it like its supposed to be
What’s bloat? You need to have a functional computer.
Bloat is when your computer has anything more than a half functional terminal
A terminal? That’s bloat! Mine is spitting stones in binary, but I think about a more minimal solution these days…
Mine uses atoms instead of stones
Atoms? Do you have infinite resources or something? Real minimalism uses electrons!
Wait till you hear about Quarks. True minimalist knows!
Bloat is when programs that you’ve installed to do something have the gall to use system resources to do the thing you installed them to do.
I have this problem with Tubleweed. Installed a few DEs to try them out, but it was easyer to install than remove the same swathe of packages. Now I have multiple file browsers and settings programs :(
Have you tried using snapper to rollback?
I should have, but that was a few weeks ago so now I’m slowly uninstalling unnecessary programs.
It’s inevitable. Occasional needs come up, so you install stuff and forget you have, or you think, “Well, I won’t remove that because I might need it at some point in the future.” Reinstalling every couple of years is not a bad thing. Just make sure to save your home directory.
Just use NixOS. Not minimalist but very organized and feels comfortable
You can use Nix outside of NixOS. Nix + Void has been the mainstay for my machines for the past couple of years.
