I currently use Manjaro as my daily driver, but it is bloatware to be honest. I want to switch to more minimalist distro so i ended up thinking on Void. So any advice? How is package manager? Community? Softwares? Documentation?

      • blank_sl8@lemmy.ml
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        3 years ago

        What does bloated mean to you? What is the harm in having extra packages installed, if you don’t use them?

        • pinknoise@lemmy.ml
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          3 years ago

          What is the harm in having extra packages installed, if you don’t use them?

          Wasted disk space and bigger attack surface.

          • blank_sl8@lemmy.ml
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            3 years ago

            Disk space is the only factor. There’s no bigger attack surface you don’t use the packages.

            • pinknoise@lemmy.ml
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              3 years ago

              They could have privilege escalation bugs or help hiding and/or running unwanted code.

              • blank_sl8@lemmy.ml
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                3 years ago

                That’s a good point. I’d argue however that if you’re running malicious, unprivileged code on your desktop computer, you’re pretty much screwed regardless, since you likely use sudo frequently and it could just keylog your password. But there are certainly some security downsides to having too many packages installed.