If you want something light, then you could try some minimalist wm (i3, bspwm, ratpoison, dwm, worm).ĭon't quote me on this but if you want a minimum install, you can live with 8gb. Anything extra (bloat) comes from other things that makes your life easier.
Gentoo/lfs might be even more as you probably need to compile most of the software and on top of what you need you also need tools to compile which might not be required in distros that ship pre-built binaries.Īny distro is minimal (comparably) if you do server install. So regardless of what is your base: arch, debian, lfs, void, the "bloat" would be similar with similar installs (ie gnome+firefox is going to be the same level of 'bloat' in all of the distro). I have vim but for people who use neo-vim, they need the family of lua-packages as it is the dependency (if I am not mistaken). For example I need octave which adds fortran and some extra packages required with it which increases the package count and thus adding "bloat".
I use i3 and that get me to about 600 something packages at 700mb ram usage on idle (16gb total)
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