[akimbostrawman]

>Linux has become so bloated its users can't in good conscience make fun of Microsoft anymore, they are worse.

Please show me where Linux comes pre installed with ads, ai and other 3rd party adware and uses a start menu written in react that makes your CPU fans spin up when you press it a couple time

There is a enormous difference between bloat for the sake of feature or profit maximizing. If you think gnome and systemd are bloat then simply don't use them.

[anthk]

The parent commenter stated that even booting in text mode 512MB are not enough. 20 years ago you could run a whole KDE3 stack pretty happily among a live installer if you cared.