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At what point is your system bloated? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by squid_slime@lemmy.world to c/archlinux@lemmy.ml

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I feel my system is perpetually bloated, and try to maintain what applications I have installed but always seem to veer off into new applications or python modules and what ever else.

Just wondering how does one keep a lean daily use system?

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[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 16 points 11 months ago

If you want to keep your main system lean, the best you can do is shove every project in a container or VM that way you can easily dispose of it, or at least know what's for what.

Honestly, I embrace the bloat. Yes, my root partition is 50+GB big not even including /var. But none of it is really running or used. It's a lot of disk space for stuff that gets used once in a blue moon.

I could clean it all up, but I also don't miss going dependency hunting whenever I want to use something from GitHub. As it is, I can pretty much git clone and play most repos and everything works out of the box. I have the toolchains for Python, Ruby, PHP, Go, NodeJS, Rust, D, C#, C/C++, Haskell, OCaml, Java, Android, Android NDK, and whatever other crap I can't even think of. Wouldn't be surprised if I have a Fortran or TurboPascal compiler laying around.

And that's kind of a lot nicer than 50GB of extra space on one of my 3 ZFS pools. My system performs to my liking, shows no sign of slowdowns, and it handles basically everything I throw at it.