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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.
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.
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.