When we are talking about lightweight, we don’t mean how much disk space the OS and the software takes up. We are talking how much CPU and memory it uses. You can have very lightweight Linux OS with a terabyte of software.
so a os that only requires 1gb storage is lightweight whereas if it requires 1tb its heavy. thats how it works but RAM and CPU is also there is even more important.
@@mrfoxesite4482 That’s really not how it is viewed anymore in linux community nor in tech spheres. But from consumer perspective and several niche target groups, that might actually be a very valid point indeed.
@@mrfoxesite4482 Boot from a drive, sure. But to install a full-featured OS from a thumb drive? Sure they’re getting faster, cheaper and more compact. But I think the time of portable media is at it’s end, and never really have praised it anyways. It’s not secure to even have any ports on you’re device. Wireless and encrypted data all the way.
If the distro provides all the tools you need and doesn't stop you from uninstalling anything then I don't see the point of "light" or "heavy". I love Mint, it not only just works but is incredibly easy to customize. It's also 10x smaller than windows and runs better too.
Honestly one of the main reasons why Im not installing Windows for my upcoming PC build. All my games are on Steam and all the multiplayer games I care about like War Thunder have Linux compatible anti cheats...
I think one could make the argument, that sometimes you don't have the additional resources needed for the heavyweight install (there are alternative distros for that, though) or the necessary time or know-how to safely remove all of the components that you might view as "bloat", or even the ability to identify what might fit in that category. That's why some even enjoy building their own distros, or having highly custom Arch installs. I use Linux Mint btw, honestly it just works and I even switched over to the Cinnamon desktop after using XFCE for the longest time ever, plus not having such a heavy push for snaps is just sublime!
Idea: OS installs should be in 'reverse'. The OS comes with drivers and heavy machinery to support every possible hardware and application configuration, then at the end of the install or at any point later, the user can run a 'prune' or 'optimize' command that strips most things that fulfill both criteria of having never been used, and not being part of a 'common requirement' whitelist.
Qubes is not a linux distro. Why does everyone group it as a linux distro, it’s just straight up not, no ifs buts or ands. It’s a hypervisor based off of xen, it can *run* linux but it’s not like we’d call virtualbox a linux distro
cubes is a linux distro, that houses a xen hypervisor and fedora VM. And I am able to tell yall, cause I did test it and I did decompile even the kernel. Sorry for ya.
From my experience it depends on what specific resource it's heavy on, because this varies greatly: * Heavy on CPU: Gentoo, especially during installation and package management because it requires you to compile everything from source (if you don't have a Threadripper, it's going to take days to install) * Heavy on RAM: probably Mint or Pop! OS, although Gentoo also has an issue in this category when compiling qtwebengine in particular * Heavy on graphics: definitely Garuda * Heavy on disk space: there are several options here, and sure, Qubes is definitely one of them, but so too are penetration testing distros - Parrot for example will literally take up 16GB of disk space of whatever it's installed on, while a full, complete BlackArch installation (i.e. literally running `pacman -S blackarch) will set you back 60GB just in the sheer number of hacking tools alone. Not sure how Kali compares to those two as I haven't used it as much (only very briefly as CEHv12 switched entirely to Parrot for its official VM set).
Garuda is, well I don’t want to say bloat, but it’s more configured by default than any other I seen. Underrated intermediate/gamer distro, I think more people should try it for ideas
I love Garuda. It's my #1 recommendation for new users because of the sheer amount of preconfiguration, pre-installed software, and access to the AUR. Compared to Windows, it's relatively lightweight. Compared to other Linux distros, it's bloated as heck, but for good reason.
I'm running Garuda KDE right now on my old af Dell Inspiron from 2011 with a Gen 2 i7 and 16GB RAM. Even with the "bloat" everything runs great. My aim is to use it music production and light gaming, and to slowly but surely learn how to never have to rely on Windows or MacOS again.
Garuda is not that heavy compared with Mint or Kali. Actually I would say Kali might be the #1 bloated distro out there (since being bloated is their main feature, not a bug).
Perhaps it is all different today, but in the 1990's, the long boot time on Red Hat Linux made me feel like it must be the heaviest software ever written.
I've always found Ubuntu (especially the Unity desktop versions) to be "heavy", meaning it runs noticably slower on anything less than cutting-edge machines compared to other distros, but the hw recognition is unparalleled, so I do use it on occasion. Another I would nominate as "heavy" (20GB when installed) is PCLinuxOS (PCLOS) KDE Full Version.
One issue with Ubuntu these days is that it depends on Snaps, which add an additional load onto the system. They are heavy in disk usage and they also need more time to get loaded when launched. The time that Ubuntu was a lightweight themed Debian clone has long gone. For a light weight system just use vanilla Debian or Arch Linux.
@@stevie-g-123 If it's actually really slow, most of the time there's something wrong, some silent error for example. Did you check any logs? But it can also be some driver issue.
@@jongeduardbut in some cases like using CUDA on Docker, I am wrestling to use CUDA on Docker container on Debian and still not success. Instruction on Docker even wrote as I use Ubuntu as OS to install it.
@@mrfoxesite4482 Is more correct use Gibibyte instead of Gigabyte because we are talking about 1 GiB is 1024 MiB and 1 GB is 1000 MB. One is base 2 bybte (2^10=1024) and the other is base 10 byte (10^3=1000). For example Linux in general or at least KDE use GiB. And Microsoft is the one that don't follow the standard.
My first Linux distro was Linux Mint with xcfe desktop, which I installed on an 13 years old laptop. I tested other distros on it too, but Mint was by far the most perfomant on it for some reason.
Mint with Xfce and MATE is good. Cinnamon is disappointing to me. It's good UI wise but on my low end laptop latest version of Gnome runs smoothly while Cinnamon is stuttering. Cinnamon memory leaks also do not help.
@@thetechdog Mint MATE was the first Linux distro I ever installed and something about the throwback aspect of it put a giant smile on my face. That and the fact that it revived a 12 y/o laptop with a cracked copy of Win7 on it. lol
@@jahinzee you got no idea what you saying, like the guy made the video. is a hypervisor, and yea is based on some linux, like eveything around us, your smartphone, wven your tv has some unix in it.
Technically it is a Xen hypervisor, that runs a Dom0 Linux distro (Fedora) by default, however you can change it and compile the image yourself with a different base. And the ONLY reason it runs the Linux kernel for Dom0 is so the user can actually use the machine.
@@dorei943 yeah I wrote a reply a while ago but evidently never sent it, but you're right. Only userspace in Qubes is Fedora. Everything else that's managed by the OS is not Linux but Xen.
Zorin OS pro comes preloaded with a bunch of software and tools totaling in the biggest Linux ISO you’ll ever download (except for RHEL), somewhere around 6.5GB
damn, my laptop running NixOS and a full GNOME install has 322 systemd units loaded, and my other servers running NixOS have in the mid-200s. surprisingly low, i guess.
Personally I really don't think it's that big of a deal for a desktop OS. I don't mind a little weight there so long as my servers remain low overhead.
Linux mint works better than winows 10... I am currently sending this message on an old crusty ah laptop that had the "Task manager (not responding)". I never liked linux but after 2 days of using this. It is amazing. I am learning new things every day. I don't evn need video games when I get the adrenaline, anger and feeling of success just making the wifi work (took 2 days of trouble shooting and using commands and in the end I just reverted to older kernel and now it works).
>Ubuntu has left the chat. Ubuntu is a LOT more heavier than mint. Basically almost as unoptimized as windows. (In my experience, Ubuntu gets lag spikes and its super buggy and gets meh fps in minecraft which is natively supported on Linux very well) Java edition btw. But on Arch, it was less buggy and the performance was really gud...
Oh i thought we meant image size. Ubuntu is currently sitting at 6GB just for the desktop ISO. They say it’s a bug but they released it like that anyway.
I was surprised when Garuda Linux was 30 GB. But they have a lightweight version too. Plus all the bells and whistles honestly are worth it for the aesthetic.
kali is also quite heavy weight in terms of storage usage (for daily driving or long-term use, and yes you can put kali in a USB but the USB needs to be atleast 8-16 gb and it still limits kali's potential)
In my college there were some really old PCs like Windows XP SP1 specs. They all had dual boot with Windows 7 and a user friendly Linux distro that I don't remmember anymore. Guess wich one was faster? Windows 7 by a LONG margin.
Interesting. I never see Mint as 'heavy' - in part cos just 3GB download (including LibreOffice and all other software basic user needs), but also because I use the MATE desktop, which now is about the same RAM (sometimes lower) than the 'lightweight' XFCE. Has all the functionality I could want and is intuitive. Mint out performs all other distros except in one area: it's not bleeding edge updates cos its based on Ubuntu, but we can never get around sacrificing bleeding edge software for stability, so fundamentally I prefer stability (and really, unless there is a specific new feature you want from software that's only compatible with a newer Ubuntu OS, then stability is always better).
"Heaviest Linux Distro" the first thing i thought is exactly QubesOS (it need 16 GB of RAM and each virtual compartment is a VM of a distro so basicly distro containing another set of distros in it)
The heaviest Linux OS distributions are those that are immutable or they install a package that contains all its dependencies without sharing with other packages. This results in considerably more storage for the OS but storage is cheap and getting cheaper all the time. I would rather avoid linked library hell and make it a thing of the past. Making things immutable improves security.
Linux mint is the most put together out of the box Linux distro out there. I've tried other Ubuntu and Debian distros, arch, Slackware. I always come back to Linux mint. Because 9/10 times I found that several things didn’t work or weren’t easy to find a workaround because several things were missing from the distro in question. Out of the 3 desktop environments from mint xfce is my favorite it’s most like windows 7 it’s the simplest and easiest and lightweight. Plus most drivers for Wi-Fi and printers are already available in Linux Mint out of the box!!
@andrewnoonan8175 Wayland is smooth but isn't as compatible as x11 with Nvidia GPU. The interesting aspects of Mint for I are its reliability and stability. Another thing I love that is Linux mint gui in some parts is much better than Windows!! Thats awesome. Mint reminds me of Mac OS. Just boot the PC and focus on development. Thanks for your instructions.
ubuntu is run by a major company called cananical that has a team is aimed at development of ubuntu but mint is run by a group of developers thats why ubuntu has more features and getting developed faster than many linux distribution also canancial is trying to focus on bring ai to ubuntu in future ubuntu is like mint and has many build in software
I remember having 512 mb of RAM. It seems like we're regressing in this regard for getting the same experience of opening and closing windows on our desktop.
You've never heard of grumbo Linux, which has an installation image that comes with 500GB worth of various things, including text files full of grumbo quotes, grumbo artwork, concept art, grumbo music, grumbo wallpapers, grumbo movies, grumbo video games, an installation of steam with a grumbo skin and 10,000 free games, and of course the grumbo web browser, to give you the full grumbo experience.
Mint is nowhere near that heavy on my machine, and Qubes only gets huge if you lean too hard into Standalones. The bigger problem with Qubes is the god-awful performance you suffer in return for its security benefits.
Not sure Qubes fits into this, it's not exactly a Linux distro and even then it's so substantially different that it doesn't make sense here IMO. I think a better fit would be Garuda Gamer edition, comes with so much software per installed that you're not gonna use, and it's one of the most heavily visually customized distros.
Imo 1. Qube os, 2. Elementary os, 3. Gnome & kubuntu. Linux mint use a lot of storage but run very fast on my asus x455wa (dual core amd @1.2 ghz). Qube os boot fast actually in my personal experience.Also I'm having fun exploring trinity desktop environment. Elementary os looks nice but laggy on low powee hardware. Then gnome and kubuntu running reasonably fast but I prefer using kde cause i can disable most of the animation to make it snappy. Now I run i3 and compton on this slow laptop.
Meanwhile, Bazzite OS: 7GB iso Meanwhile, meanwhile, Endless OS: 32GB iso (Both of these have reasons for why they are heavy, and I actually quite like them both - proud downstream user of Bazzite here)
bro. Can you make a video tutorial about Linux, because there are no channels that discuss Linux well I'm a Windows user but want to switch to Linux, what do I need to do after installing Linux? I subscribed to your channel ❤
@@fysh5489 Best way to learn how to install linux is to learn it on your own. Not trying to be a rude man but that's the honest truth. You just need to choose a distro, flash it into your usb drive with tools like rofi, and boot into your flash drive after turning off secure boot in your bios. From then you can either figure it out on your own, or use the internet for help. Good luck!
The "recommended specs" are not a measurement, they are an estimated number recommended for a "good" experience, which is also not a measurement. Dont use those specs to measure how heavy a distro is. Measure it by running the distro and checking how much RAM, storage, CPU etc are ACTUALLY used by the distro 🤦
The bloat in cubes os comes from having tons of actual separated virtual machines, so if a hacker want to get in and do anything, it needs to bypass each virtual machine. Instead in any other distro, the moment the hacker gets in, you are cooked So i would say it is safer and more private (since programs can't communicate with programs in other virtual machines)
RHEL and derivatives. Full installation media is around 10GB. Next is the full installation media for SUSE Enterprise 15. 13GB ISO. But in the latter's case, there is a minimal install media
Even self study is not enough to get a job like the thumbnails nowadays but u should try to approach like just try to make or contribute in the semester mini project subject by R&D for it around you with ur group or team to learn more about urself and ur intrest in IT and Technology field
I really dislike Linux's command prompt line and work around games that you don't get official game support on game devs but since you mentioned about Linux having permissions like an android just makes me rethink of going again. I've always wondered why Windows doesn't operate like a phone does limiting apps capability by permissions for malicious softwares to go rogue.
Linux Mint isn't "heavy", they specifically strip out crap like Snaps and other things you don't need and even provide a version of two very lightweight desktop environments. Just because they provide a few helper programs doesn't really make much difference. But the behind the scenes stuff they do does. Mint is based on Ubuntu, but is "lighter" than Ubuntu. But yeah, the whole thing is bollocks anyway, you can install Gentoo or Arch and then make it as bloated as anything.
Still more lightweight than Windows 11 LOL
Not Qubes but Outside of it ir 100 percent
Ah, Windows 11 totally doesn't need 4x less ram and 6x less storage than that massive monster, while you can still remove windows apps to clean it up
Yeah it's just a shame that it didn't retain any usefulness when they stripped it down
Windows 11 sucks and i will never switch to it if everything works on 7 or 10.
average linux loser
When we are talking about lightweight, we don’t mean how much disk space the OS and the software takes up. We are talking how much CPU and memory it uses. You can have very lightweight Linux OS with a terabyte of software.
Each of those separated environments is it's own virtualized container. I'd say that'd be pretty resource intensive
so a os that only requires 1gb storage is lightweight whereas if it requires 1tb its heavy. thats how it works but RAM and CPU is also there is even more important.
@@mrfoxesite4482 That’s really not how it is viewed anymore in linux community nor in tech spheres. But from consumer perspective and several niche target groups, that might actually be a very valid point indeed.
@@atklm1 i meant that much storage to install and boot from drive.
@@mrfoxesite4482 Boot from a drive, sure. But to install a full-featured OS from a thumb drive? Sure they’re getting faster, cheaper and more compact. But I think the time of portable media is at it’s end, and never really have praised it anyways. It’s not secure to even have any ports on you’re device. Wireless and encrypted data all the way.
Undoubtedly its RHEL.. base install even without the flagship default DE is heavy af
Im thinking deepin
Base install, sure. Minimal is super light though.
Isn't it just gnome?
=9 Gigs... Today I unomunted ISO image in Proxmox and I saw in lsblk how much it weighted
@@lenowoo yes
No YourMom OS?
It even uses Fat file system
yo mama so fat32 she cant hold files over 4 gb@@thatsalot3577
lol
@@thatsalot3577It uses FAT, standing for Fat Allocation Table.
This isn't Salem Techspert
If the distro provides all the tools you need and doesn't stop you from uninstalling anything then I don't see the point of "light" or "heavy".
I love Mint, it not only just works but is incredibly easy to customize. It's also 10x smaller than windows and runs better too.
Honestly one of the main reasons why Im not installing Windows for my upcoming PC build. All my games are on Steam and all the multiplayer games I care about like War Thunder have Linux compatible anti cheats...
@@edim108 I kid you not, I'm ONLY keeping Windows for Roblox and Fortnite. Call me a child all you want... cause you're not wrong.
I think one could make the argument, that sometimes you don't have the additional resources needed for the heavyweight install (there are alternative distros for that, though) or the necessary time or know-how to safely remove all of the components that you might view as "bloat", or even the ability to identify what might fit in that category. That's why some even enjoy building their own distros, or having highly custom Arch installs.
I use Linux Mint btw, honestly it just works and I even switched over to the Cinnamon desktop after using XFCE for the longest time ever, plus not having such a heavy push for snaps is just sublime!
Idea: OS installs should be in 'reverse'. The OS comes with drivers and heavy machinery to support every possible hardware and application configuration, then at the end of the install or at any point later, the user can run a 'prune' or 'optimize' command that strips most things that fulfill both criteria of having never been used, and not being part of a 'common requirement' whitelist.
@@krissythecatboiWait what is the problem with snaps?
-Laptop Linux Lite user.
So one is the housr full of toys and tools, the other is a bank with many vaults and paperwork.
Qubes is not a linux distro. Why does everyone group it as a linux distro, it’s just straight up not, no ifs buts or ands. It’s a hypervisor based off of xen, it can *run* linux but it’s not like we’d call virtualbox a linux distro
Right? Thought I was the crazy one here.
most Linux youtubers have no clue what they're talking about
cubes is a linux distro, that houses a xen hypervisor and fedora VM. And I am able to tell yall, cause I did test it and I did decompile even the kernel. Sorry for ya.
@@analebanane508 That doesn't make it a distro, it's use is different. Proxmox is not a linux distribution.
@analebanane508 hey, how did you decompile the kernel?
From my experience it depends on what specific resource it's heavy on, because this varies greatly:
* Heavy on CPU: Gentoo, especially during installation and package management because it requires you to compile everything from source (if you don't have a Threadripper, it's going to take days to install)
* Heavy on RAM: probably Mint or Pop! OS, although Gentoo also has an issue in this category when compiling qtwebengine in particular
* Heavy on graphics: definitely Garuda
* Heavy on disk space: there are several options here, and sure, Qubes is definitely one of them, but so too are penetration testing distros - Parrot for example will literally take up 16GB of disk space of whatever it's installed on, while a full, complete BlackArch installation (i.e. literally running `pacman -S blackarch) will set you back 60GB just in the sheer number of hacking tools alone. Not sure how Kali compares to those two as I haven't used it as much (only very briefly as CEHv12 switched entirely to Parrot for its official VM set).
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Oh my god! Thank you! That is exactly what I was looking for!!!
Garuda is, well I don’t want to say bloat, but it’s more configured by default than any other I seen. Underrated intermediate/gamer distro, I think more people should try it for ideas
Garuda and Big Linux are distros I've seem to be the more configured by default
I love Garuda. It's my #1 recommendation for new users because of the sheer amount of preconfiguration, pre-installed software, and access to the AUR.
Compared to Windows, it's relatively lightweight. Compared to other Linux distros, it's bloated as heck, but for good reason.
Cachy is basically Garuda with more kernel options and less sparkly wrapping paper.
I'm running Garuda KDE right now on my old af Dell Inspiron from 2011 with a Gen 2 i7 and 16GB RAM. Even with the "bloat" everything runs great. My aim is to use it music production and light gaming, and to slowly but surely learn how to never have to rely on Windows or MacOS again.
Garuda is not that heavy compared with Mint or Kali.
Actually I would say Kali might be the #1 bloated distro out there (since being bloated is their main feature, not a bug).
This dude’s face looks like the hacker mask
ZorinOS becomes perplexed since it cannot figure out what it did not do to rank top on the list.
Perhaps it is all different today, but in the 1990's, the long boot time on Red Hat Linux made me feel like it must be the heaviest software ever written.
I must know your keyboard setup, another commenter on another short said it sounds like pure heaven, and I have to agree.
Meh, I like quiet membrane keyboards more, but to each their own.
@@maxz69 it's not loud at all though, it sounds like lubed mechanical, very soft yet tactile
He answered this question already as I remember
In the Last 5th short in the channel right now
@@raouf7129ah, good shout, thank you!
CaseOS?
No I thought I could escape CaseOh jokes
32768 KCAL minimum
@@TheRealAlphaXDthere's no escaping Case, mainly bc he takes up so much space...
@@edim108 bro is so wide he's omnipresent
@@TheRealAlphaXD sorry but that Case´s closed LUL
I've always found Ubuntu (especially the Unity desktop versions) to be "heavy", meaning it runs noticably slower on anything less than cutting-edge machines compared to other distros, but the hw recognition is unparalleled, so I do use it on occasion. Another I would nominate as "heavy" (20GB when installed) is PCLinuxOS (PCLOS) KDE Full Version.
One issue with Ubuntu these days is that it depends on Snaps, which add an additional load onto the system. They are heavy in disk usage and they also need more time to get loaded when launched.
The time that Ubuntu was a lightweight themed Debian clone has long gone.
For a light weight system just use vanilla Debian or Arch Linux.
people say put ubuntu on bad laptops it makes them faster but my bad laptop runs worse on recent versions of ubuntu than it did on tiny 11
@@stevie-g-123 If it's actually really slow, most of the time there's something wrong, some silent error for example. Did you check any logs? But it can also be some driver issue.
@@jongeduardbut in some cases like using CUDA on Docker, I am wrestling to use CUDA on Docker container on Debian and still not success. Instruction on Docker even wrote as I use Ubuntu as OS to install it.
Heaviest distros are the ones with every package preinstalled like Blackarch full or Kali Everything.
EndlessOS >Kali and Arch
Ubuntu is big like 7 GiB and Kali all as local is 15 GiB.
@@CompuB1t GB is used normally and GiB is not used normally.
@@mrfoxesite4482 Is more correct use Gibibyte instead of Gigabyte because we are talking about 1 GiB is 1024 MiB and 1 GB is 1000 MB.
One is base 2 bybte (2^10=1024) and the other is base 10 byte (10^3=1000).
For example Linux in general or at least KDE use GiB. And Microsoft is the one that don't follow the standard.
@@CompuB1t i forgot that ms lies and made me wrong. i almost thought you were wrong. stupid micro$**t.
My first Linux distro was Linux Mint with xcfe desktop, which I installed on an 13 years old laptop. I tested other distros on it too, but Mint was by far the most perfomant on it for some reason.
linux lite is usually what I throw on dino machines
Mint with Xfce and MATE is good. Cinnamon is disappointing to me. It's good UI wise but on my low end laptop latest version of Gnome runs smoothly while Cinnamon is stuttering. Cinnamon memory leaks also do not help.
@@thetechdog Mint MATE was the first Linux distro I ever installed and something about the throwback aspect of it put a giant smile on my face. That and the fact that it revived a 12 y/o laptop with a cracked copy of Win7 on it. lol
@@TylerInTraining Mhm, Mint MATE is good. I think of it as the best version of Mint. Quite underrated too.
@@whiskytangofoxtrot_It's almost same as mint xfce. Really lightweight solution for dino machines is antiX.
back in time there was debian and ubuntu versions with local repositories at something like 10 dvd's
heavier than y0 mo-
If a paper is 5kb and 0.689 foot then it's 102000 times bigger than your mom
"uses mint as a reference"
Actually, the heaviest distro is EndlessOS, because it has an ISO that is 24GB size
Qubes isn't even Linux if I remember properly, it's a Xen Hypervisor distribution based on BSD I'm pretty sure.
Nope, it's based on Fedora
@@jahinzee you got no idea what you saying, like the guy made the video.
is a hypervisor, and yea is based on some linux, like eveything around us, your smartphone, wven your tv has some unix in it.
Technically it is a Xen hypervisor, that runs a Dom0 Linux distro (Fedora) by default, however you can change it and compile the image yourself with a different base. And the ONLY reason it runs the Linux kernel for Dom0 is so the user can actually use the machine.
@@dorei943 yeah I wrote a reply a while ago but evidently never sent it, but you're right. Only userspace in Qubes is Fedora. Everything else that's managed by the OS is not Linux but Xen.
i followed because of the keyboard sounds 😀
Hex.4B - Taeha Types
He used the sound effects from that video
The heaviest distro is probably Endless OS, with a bunch of stuff pre-installed out of the box.
yeah but which one uses the most RAM in idle?
Zorin OS pro comes preloaded with a bunch of software and tools totaling in the biggest Linux ISO you’ll ever download (except for RHEL), somewhere around 6.5GB
damn, my laptop running NixOS and a full GNOME install has 322 systemd units loaded, and my other servers running NixOS have in the mid-200s. surprisingly low, i guess.
Personally I really don't think it's that big of a deal for a desktop OS. I don't mind a little weight there so long as my servers remain low overhead.
When "Linux can become as heavy as you want it to be!" was said, I misread `systemctl` as `systemd`...
Arch with all packages from AUR installed.
Linux mint works better than winows 10... I am currently sending this message on an old crusty ah laptop that had the "Task manager (not responding)". I never liked linux but after 2 days of using this. It is amazing. I am learning new things every day. I don't evn need video games when I get the adrenaline, anger and feeling of success just making the wifi work (took 2 days of trouble shooting and using commands and in the end I just reverted to older kernel and now it works).
The most visually heavy would be Garuda in my opinion.
Blackarch is like 40 Gigs too if you install the full iso XD
>Ubuntu has left the chat.
Ubuntu is a LOT more heavier than mint. Basically almost as unoptimized as windows. (In my experience, Ubuntu gets lag spikes and its super buggy and gets meh fps in minecraft which is natively supported on Linux very well) Java edition btw. But on Arch, it was less buggy and the performance was really gud...
Heaviest distro is BlackArch, it's ISO alone is 22GB in size.
EndlessOS might be a good fit. It comes with a lot of batteries for education
What kind of keyboard are you using? The typing sounds very nice 😊
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I daily drive Qubes on my laptop I even took to DEFCON. I love it
Oh i thought we meant image size. Ubuntu is currently sitting at 6GB just for the desktop ISO. They say it’s a bug but they released it like that anyway.
I was surprised when Garuda Linux was 30 GB.
But they have a lightweight version too.
Plus all the bells and whistles honestly are worth it for the aesthetic.
QubesOS isn’t a Linux distro, it runs all those VMs without a Linux host, just the Zen hypervisor.
mint was really heavy i found. ive stacked my arch install and its a quarter what it was with mint
oh wow i love those keyboard sounds
kali is also quite heavy weight in terms of storage usage (for daily driving or long-term use, and yes you can put kali in a USB but the USB needs to be atleast 8-16 gb and it still limits kali's potential)
"A reasonably secure operating system" 🤣
In my college there were some really old PCs like Windows XP SP1 specs. They all had dual boot with Windows 7 and a user friendly Linux distro that I don't remmember anymore.
Guess wich one was faster? Windows 7 by a LONG margin.
I used to like Sabayon for including everything, but don't forget Debian used to come with CDs of absolutely everything in their repositories.
I recognized the mint background from the thumbnail
I installed Debian w/ every single desktop environment listed at setup in a VM once.
Black arch uses an unholy amount of storage
Interesting. I never see Mint as 'heavy' - in part cos just 3GB download (including LibreOffice and all other software basic user needs), but also because I use the MATE desktop, which now is about the same RAM (sometimes lower) than the 'lightweight' XFCE. Has all the functionality I could want and is intuitive. Mint out performs all other distros except in one area: it's not bleeding edge updates cos its based on Ubuntu, but we can never get around sacrificing bleeding edge software for stability, so fundamentally I prefer stability (and really, unless there is a specific new feature you want from software that's only compatible with a newer Ubuntu OS, then stability is always better).
"Heaviest Linux Distro" the first thing i thought is exactly QubesOS (it need 16 GB of RAM and each virtual compartment is a VM of a distro so basicly distro containing another set of distros in it)
The heaviest Linux OS distributions are those that are immutable or they install a package that contains all its dependencies without sharing with other packages. This results in considerably more storage for the OS but storage is cheap and getting cheaper all the time. I would rather avoid linked library hell and make it a thing of the past. Making things immutable improves security.
Mint Cinnamon is still quite a bit lighter than recent windows. It's my only OS on my current machine after getting rid of 11.
Windows 11 requires 64gb while mint needs 100 gb are you sire?
Unrelated, but I really like your voice, what accent is that?
Linux mint is the most put together out of the box Linux distro out there. I've tried other Ubuntu and Debian distros, arch, Slackware. I always come back to Linux mint. Because 9/10 times I found that several things didn’t work or weren’t easy to find a workaround because several things were missing from the distro in question. Out of the 3 desktop environments from mint xfce is my favorite it’s most like windows 7 it’s the simplest and easiest and lightweight. Plus most drivers for Wi-Fi and printers are already available in Linux Mint out of the box!!
drivers belong in the kernel so every linux distro has them. you might be talking about firmware
If this were to be a Savanah update, I think it would be called the "Sunny Savannahs" update!
I'm sure that if you have a standard sized drive, which on most new systems is 500GB to 1 TB, well, I'm sure that 20 GB is a real concern.
I love mint. but the animations aren't as smooth as Ubuntu. Is there any way to improve them?
Unfortunately not, because Ubuntu has Wayland by default
@andrewnoonan8175 Wayland is smooth but isn't as compatible as x11 with Nvidia GPU. The interesting aspects of Mint for I are its reliability and stability. Another thing I love that is Linux mint gui in some parts is much better than Windows!! Thats awesome. Mint reminds me of Mac OS. Just boot the PC and focus on development. Thanks for your instructions.
ubuntu is run by a major company called cananical that has a team is aimed at development of ubuntu but mint is run by a group of developers
thats why ubuntu has more features and getting developed faster than many linux distribution
also canancial is trying to focus on bring ai to ubuntu in future
ubuntu is like mint and has many build in software
those are recommended requirements not actual sizes.
Even the lightest Distro will become a 46 million gb kg behemoth once you ask a question about it on any linux forum.
What’s the keyboard being used? It’s sound immaculate
I remember having 512 mb of RAM. It seems like we're regressing in this regard for getting the same experience of opening and closing windows on our desktop.
Lubuntu requires 256MB, today. My favorite
Everyone wants that Eddy Snowman endorsement
You've never heard of grumbo Linux, which has an installation image that comes with 500GB worth of various things, including text files full of grumbo quotes, grumbo artwork, concept art, grumbo music, grumbo wallpapers, grumbo movies, grumbo video games, an installation of steam with a grumbo skin and 10,000 free games, and of course the grumbo web browser, to give you the full grumbo experience.
Does any vendor even sell an SSD under 100gb? 20gb is still smaller than Windows.
Mint is nowhere near that heavy on my machine, and Qubes only gets huge if you lean too hard into Standalones. The bigger problem with Qubes is the god-awful performance you suffer in return for its security benefits.
Linux Mint + Timeshift back up storage and a few snapshots later your 500GB ssd is now down to 250GB
Do you think you can run qubes os for everyday usage? Im ready to step aside from Arch and learn another os
I think it doesn't get lighter than TinyCore by now.
The original SteamOS based on debian like a minimum storage capacity on 200GB
Both are still leagues more lightweight than any current Windows, and still provide pretty good experiences though.
Not sure Qubes fits into this, it's not exactly a Linux distro and even then it's so substantially different that it doesn't make sense here IMO. I think a better fit would be Garuda Gamer edition, comes with so much software per installed that you're not gonna use, and it's one of the most heavily visually customized distros.
In my experience mint is very lightweight, it runs smooth on anything I put it on
Imo 1. Qube os, 2. Elementary os, 3. Gnome & kubuntu. Linux mint use a lot of storage but run very fast on my asus x455wa (dual core amd @1.2 ghz). Qube os boot fast actually in my personal experience.Also I'm having fun exploring trinity desktop environment. Elementary os looks nice but laggy on low powee hardware. Then gnome and kubuntu running reasonably fast but I prefer using kde cause i can disable most of the animation to make it snappy. Now I run i3 and compton on this slow laptop.
something like ubuntu gnome or zorinos pro is going to be most heavy overall probably
because no one else said it i use arch btw
Meanwhile, Bazzite OS: 7GB iso
Meanwhile, meanwhile, Endless OS: 32GB iso
(Both of these have reasons for why they are heavy, and I actually quite like them both - proud downstream user of Bazzite here)
bro. Can you make a video tutorial about Linux, because there are no channels that discuss Linux well
I'm a Windows user but want to switch to Linux, what do I need to do after installing Linux?
I subscribed to your channel ❤
😂
@gridi1143 is there something wrong?
i recommend linux mint because it works out of the box and you don't even use the terminal to install nvidia drivers
@@fysh5489 use popos, not mint
@@fysh5489 Best way to learn how to install linux is to learn it on your own. Not trying to be a rude man but that's the honest truth. You just need to choose a distro, flash it into your usb drive with tools like rofi, and boot into your flash drive after turning off secure boot in your bios. From then you can either figure it out on your own, or use the internet for help. Good luck!
you don't need 100gb to comfortably use linux mint...
what is the best for programming in c++? or any language in general
aurora os has larger iso size than windows 11, you can make arco linux extremely heavy
The "recommended specs" are not a measurement, they are an estimated number recommended for a "good" experience, which is also not a measurement. Dont use those specs to measure how heavy a distro is. Measure it by running the distro and checking how much RAM, storage, CPU etc are ACTUALLY used by the distro 🤦
I was gonna say Bazzite in terms of the ISO file alone but HOLY SHIT
high memory usage does not equal heavy, if most it did was idling.
high memory usage but low cpu usage.
Security and bloat doesn't mix well.
The bloat in cubes os comes from having tons of actual separated virtual machines, so if a hacker want to get in and do anything, it needs to bypass each virtual machine.
Instead in any other distro, the moment the hacker gets in, you are cooked
So i would say it is safer and more private (since programs can't communicate with programs in other virtual machines)
What resolution is your display? And at what dpi? That display looks incredible
in the first boot after instalation mint have taken about 14-14.5 gb of hdd space.
Wait until he hears about arch linux
RHEL and derivatives. Full installation media is around 10GB. Next is the full installation media for SUSE Enterprise 15. 13GB ISO. But in the latter's case, there is a minimal install media
Holy fuck your keyboard is crisp
and how exactly do you fill up 100gb with mint?
Even self study is not enough to get a job like the thumbnails nowadays but u should try to approach like just try to make or contribute in the semester mini project subject by R&D for it around you with ur group or team to learn more about urself and ur intrest in IT and Technology field
I really dislike Linux's command prompt line and work around games that you don't get official game support on game devs but since you mentioned about Linux having permissions like an android just makes me rethink of going again. I've always wondered why Windows doesn't operate like a phone does limiting apps capability by permissions for malicious softwares to go rogue.
а какой вес у пустого каталога в линукс?
Looks at raspberry pi with 2 gigs or ram
“Yeah, it can run it”
Nix OS wasn't mentioned >:(
fedora silverblue is the best for both new comers and ogs
Dude trying to ignore Ubuntu existence, it's literally heavier than mint
Linux Mint isn't "heavy", they specifically strip out crap like Snaps and other things you don't need and even provide a version of two very lightweight desktop environments. Just because they provide a few helper programs doesn't really make much difference. But the behind the scenes stuff they do does.
Mint is based on Ubuntu, but is "lighter" than Ubuntu.
But yeah, the whole thing is bollocks anyway, you can install Gentoo or Arch and then make it as bloated as anything.