Love to see upgrades with a negative net size lmao. Software should get more optimized with time, not more bloated. Oop, just got the gnome console popup notification saying that my install command finished running, sweet – it took as long as making this post
I’m so used to it I never realized it’s unusual.
OS is bloat, if you’re not shifting CPU registers by hand are you even a Linux user?
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No, because Linux is a kernel/OS, and OS is bloat
Exactly, you boot the kernel, then get out the electron microscope to twiddle those bits (which is why Linux users are perverts)
electron microscope
Bloat, why should my microscope be running an entire chromium browser?
I’d diddle a bit
Ninja Edit: wait…
I’m not a programmer by any means, but I’m guessing, they are just removing old redundant features and code, but I could be very wrong here.
Removing some deprecated old library or just good old optimization.
I remember one internship in college, I realized that after 4 months of work, the result was 15k lines less code than when I started. I figured out new ways to structure the system so it was much easier to write and maintain, while actually adding features. That felt great
And yeah, there are many ways for it to happen. Ex. someone was shipping the tests with the code and decided to stop, debug symbols being removed, inlined dependencies being externalized, maybe a new version of a UI toolkit has extra icons built in
Efficiency can gently creep in. What blows my mind is that this is averaged out across so many packages at once. And sure, sometimes it goes up too, but nothing like Windows/OSX. It’s really cool that you can make a Linux that will fit into ~any space you want, whereas the min requirements for Win11 include 64gb of hd
Decided to try this out on Tumbleweed. I last updated yesterday. Today I have 4 packages to upgrade and doing so will drop ruby 3.3. Looks like I also have Ruby 3.4 installed so likely I had a package depending on 3.3 and another on 3.4 and now the 3.3 has moved to 3.4. I regained a whopping 30 MB disk space!
So tired of android eating my carefully set aside free space.
Thanks for the reminder to update
Good luck, soldier!
I keep forgetting to run apt autoremove to save even more space.
Wow I’ve never had an update with so few packages.
Out of all the comments here hahaha this is the one that gets me lmao
You haven’t had an update with less than 52 packages?? Ever??
I rarely update more than once a week at most. It’s more like twice a month usually.
