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Even though different Linux distros are often fairly close in terms of real-life performance and all of them have a clear advantage over Windows in many use cases, we can't reject the fact that Arch Linux has undoubtedly won the competition. And now I'm so glad to have another reason to proudly say "I use Arch btw"

::: It was a joke of course :::

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[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 48 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (25 children)

Jesus

Installation size:

Fedora  - 7.7 GB

Arch (actually EndeavourOS) - 45 GB

Ubuntu - 49.2 GB

Windows - 72 GB

How the hell is Fedora so small? That's insane.

[–] nous@programming.dev 35 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

How the hell is arch so large? My laptop is only 27GB and that includes all user data and several years of crap being installed as well as several docker images. A fresh install should rival that fedora install.

[–] NichtElias@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

I've recently installed arch in a VM and it didn't take more than 8GB. That's with firefox and vscode installed

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