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Will I survive the Linux CLI if I only switch because I'm a student and Arch distro speed? (lemmy.world)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I'm not a computer expert or planning to be. I'm just a computer user, a coder, a gamer, and I think I will get the opportunity to afford cheaper PCs if I use the Arch distro from Linux which is very lightweight and fast. I've heard Microsoft forces you to bloat your PC with win11.

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[–] [S] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Are you saying Kubuntu is not as bloated as it looks? And I think Fedora will be smaller than that?

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago*

    Honestly, for any semi-modern hardware, the different amount of "bloat" between any two distros is small enough to be irrelevent for most everything you would do on a computer up to and including gaming, especially compared against Windows. Yes, Arch may be less bloated than, say, Ubuntu, but are you really going to notice or care that your system is idling at 1.2 GB of RAM usage instead of 800 MB?

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