[rossy]

Maybe, but it feels unfair to bring software bloat into a comparison between Linux and Windows. I don't think Linux could ever come close to the degree of software bloat in Windows. Your Clang install is 300MB? Sure. My Visual Studio install is 4.5GB, and it includes at least two versions of Clang (the DirectX shader compiler is a fork of an old version of Clang.) You think dependencies are a problem? You should be happy there's only one copy of each library on your computer (two if you have a multilib system.) I counted more than 25 copies of the C runtime on one Windows computer. You think Linux is monstrous and labyrinthine. Have you seen the scope of the Windows API? There's no comparison.

> It seems like there are zillions of Linux packages > 100MB. What does all this crap do? Why does everything depend on everything?

I dunno man, but software can get complicated, and a lot of these packages probably have features that people use. Why quibble over hundreds of megabytes when popular Windows packages like Office and Creative Cloud are multiple gigabytes? It all seems very unfair that Linux is subject to this level of scrutiny when other systems have worse bloat by literal orders of magnitude.