Bloat

[JayM]

Bloat, what I knew about, is associated with bloating paper; where the paper soaks up the ink or whatever and gets swollen as the result. I

That's blotting paper.

[agnivo007]

@JayM Yes, homophones. But that's how many people around me relate to bloating; had explained that according to their common perception.

[Huckleberry Finn]

Cortana, anyone?

[rokytnji.1]

Well. Bloat to me is installing a distro on my small ssd drive on my chromebook and watching dist-upgrade expand it's space on the ssd.

AntiX does not do this . I have never had to re-install because my drive is too small. This covers years.
I loved this feature on my dual drive eeepcs when I had em also.
Root would fit comfy cozy on the 4 gig ssd. /home would end on the larger drive.

I never ran a journaled file system on those cheap phison ssd, Ext2 all the way baby with no swap and 2 gig of ram on a 800 rated celeron cpu. Not even atom.
So like in the commercial "where is the beef?"
"Where is the bloat? "

Besides. Some dudes like fat bottomed girls, Some don't. Opinions are personal.

[BV206]

These are all useless bloat to me and get removed.
bluetooth, cups, cups-browsed, samba, nmbd, smbd, nfs-common, nfs-kernel-server, rpcbind, openvpn, clementine, and all the Indian and Asian fonts.

How do you define 'bloat'? Simply software you don't use?

That's the main thing.

[PhantomTramp]

What-a-ya-gonna-do? Haters gonna hate. HATE HATE HATE.

Antix is the only distro that satisfies on my traveling Asus eee 900A, and it gives me all I need on a 4GB SSD that's slower than I am. But, Antix runs just fine. Slim, trim, runs with the wind!

MX is the only O.S. I will ever run on my old daily driver. Like a great pizza, if there's topping there you don't like, scrape it off, you can't be that helpless.

I had to install Windows on a friend's StinkPad last month, with less than stellar bandwidth, and I thought that I would never get the dern thing the drivers it needed and all the countless updates. I think I would rather take a whuppin' than have to go through that again.

I haven't seen any bloat around here, well, maybe in my ramblin' posts..

The Tramp

[rokytnji.1]

I haven't seen any bloat around here, well, maybe in my ramblin' posts..

Great sig line.

[j2mcgreg]

At the turn of this century, when broadband access was in its infancy, dial-up access was still very prevalent and hard drive real estate was at a premium, bloat was a serious issue. A bloated iso could take days rather than hours to download, then installing it could leave precious little space for the users’ own data and removing the ‘fluff’ to create extra space was often a non-trivial exercise. Today, the reverse is true: huge hard drives, the prevalence of high speed broadband access that means ISOs can be downloaded in mere minutes and removing the ‘fluff’ just takes a few clicks in MXPI or Synaptic.

In terms of anticapitalista’s opening statement, I think that the term ‘bloat’ has almost become a non sequitur IE nobody really much cares any more, 'bloat' is very dependent on an end-user's perception and it’s really only of concern to reviewers who are searching for enough constructive criticisms to fill out an article.

[LU344928]

@JayM Yes, homophones.

Actually, they're not homophones as they are not pronounced the same. Bloat rhymes with boat while blot rhymes with lot. This can sometimes be difficult for non-native speakers to detect.

[uncle mark]

In terms of anticapitalista’s opening statement, I think that the term ‘bloat’ has almost become a non sequitur IE nobody really much cares any more, 'bloat' is very dependent on an end-user's perception and it’s really only of concern to reviewers who are searching for enough constructive criticisms to fill out an article.

My favorites are those that complain about RAM usage. Having a bunch of RAM doesn't do you much good if you don't use it, does it?