Seeking alt-distro networking utilities I explored Xenial-era Lubuntu vs. Xubuntu.
Lubuntu is 900+ MB
Xubuntu is 1.4+ GB
If you were to assume without checking, why is Xubuntu roughly 50% larger?
I am typing from a Puppy XFCE < 30 MB larger than the regular JWM boot.
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JASpup wrote:If you were to assume without checking, why is Xubuntu roughly 50% larger?
I think because it has more 'big' applications installed, e.g. libreoffice, gimp, pulseaudio etc...
Also, I think, the XFCE (+dependencies, perhaps more bells and whistles) in Xubuntu is larger by itself than in Puppy.
This why the size difference.
Lubuntu is a fast and lightweight operating system with a clean and easy-to-use user interface.
It is a Linux system, that uses the minimal desktop LXDE/LXQT, and a selection of light applications.
Size of the programs in an OS matters.
The things you do not tell us, are usually the clue to fixing the problem.
When I was a kid, I wanted to be older.
This is not what I expected 
Part of my incredulity is knowing what Puppy would do with 900 MB alone and getting used to the size difference between desktops being the desktops themselves.
Lubuntu left a narrow window. It switched to LXQt for one release (Bionic-era 18.10) before dropping 32-bit.
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