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by maksut 964 days ago
It is not number of packages! 20.04 has 2977 packages and 23.10 has 1841 (from pkglist from distrowatch). After a quick eyeballing, example packages in 20.04 but NOT in 23.10: apache, g++, qemu, php, postgres, samba.

Also for comparison:

- MacOS installer ~14G [0]

- Windows 11 installer ~8G [1]

- Arch installer ~800M [2]

0: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201372

1: https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows11

2: https://archlinux.org/download/
1 comments
underscoring 963 days ago
interesting! my first guess was that it would be the number of packages, so that's wrong.

also interesting to see that arch is so much smaller. Kind of surprised Win11 is 8Gb since Win10 was less than half that

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