Sayori meme representing Linux users. Sayori is disgusted by text reading “receiving pre-installed bloatware” and instead approves “accumulating bloatware over time”. Bloatware refers to unused packages.

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    19 hours ago

    This doesn’t make sense to me.
    If you install features over time, it’s because you want to use them, if you want to use them, it’s not bloat.
    If it’s to try it, and it’s not for you, why not just remove the package again?

    I can’t say for others, but my system definitely does not get bloated over time.
    On the contrary, I remove preinstalled features I don’t use, when I get tired of seeing them updating.

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      19 hours ago

      Bold of you to assume people have perfect knowledge of what they installed and what they use and how much.

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        19 hours ago

        I just copy and paste things into the terminal until whatever I wanted is installed and running.

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        19 hours ago

        Are you saying you don’t know when you install additional packages?
        How does that work?

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            19 hours ago

            Being mindless about anything has pretty similar results, I don’t see the point of this?
            Forget you have a car parked in your garage and it will get dirty over time.
            Maybe not the best analogy, but if you don’t give a shit, things tend to fall apart.

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              19 hours ago

              Forget you have a car parked in your garage and it will get dirty over time.

              Exactly and then from time to time your clear out and clean the garage. Hence the original post.

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                19 hours ago

                OK, except the post indicate building a new garage to get rid of the unused car.
                Kind of overkill IMO.

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                  15 hours ago

                  What? No.
                  Going with the garage analogy, it’s like buying a dirty car vs getting a new one and it getting dirty over time

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              18 hours ago

              Gonna raise the notion that a good, usable piece of software would not require much, if any level of awareness on this front, since most users aren’t willing or able to have that awareness in the first place.

              The way this should work is you click on things you want in a package manager and then those are present and available transparently whether you use them or not. That goes for all OSs.

              Hell, even Android’s semi-automatic hybernating of unused apps is a step too close to my face, as far as I’m concerned.

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                16 hours ago

                Isn’t that how it is, hence the meme that people accumulate bloteware* over time because they keep installing and not using but not going back and uninstalling,

                At least for me I’d open up the package manager and see all these new and recommended software and think oh cool I’ll get into ASCII art if I install this, and of course never actually run it, last time I had like three metronomes

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                  16 hours ago

                  For me it got particularly bad back when I was running Manjaro and the GUI package manager showed you multiple package types for the same software all the time. Three metronomes is bad, but three differently packaged versions of Steam is worse and potentially unrecoverable.

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      13 hours ago

      I check out apps from flathub periodically and then subsequently completely forget about them. That may or may not count as bloat depending on how you define it