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.
Edit: You are so kind to give me advice on how to remove bloatware, but I don’t need it :D
Solution: atomic distro
I actually use NixOS, but my configuration also accumulates packages I will no longer use. Even worse, these packages will be reinstalled wherever I use that config!
You can get rid of them very easily 😁 You could also have a base config and an extended config
Use nix run/nix shell and only add to the config when you’ve used that a lot for the same command.
Then clean up the config…someday.
You can try deleting old profiles and then garbage-collect the installation, only the last generation will remain and you’d get your space back.
Install comma, and run commands without installing
You can try deleting old profiles and then garbage-collect the installation, only the last generation will remain
NixOS user here. This doesn’t come out of the box, but I append a comma before the command I want to run without installing, I can run the command without installing.
Yes it’s technically downloaded (if not cached there already) in the nix store, but this is (optionally automatically) cleaned up regularly, for store items that doesn’t have a generation (profile, think version of your configuration) that depends on it.
Out the box, you can run a command that opens a shell up with the packages you specify, but comma uses a database to know the executeable names for packages (you get to pick if multiple matches), similar to the command not found function in other distros.
Sorry for hijacking your comment, just wanted to say something cool about a cool distro, which isn’t suitable for everyone, but I hope that can improve in the future because nixos is niceos
That doesn’t stop you from accumulating flatpaks and such