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A comment on Ask HN: Why are Ubuntu images so big?.

Re:Ask HN: Why are Ubuntu images so big? by maksut on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @09:19AM (#38012480)
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/

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Re:Ask HN: Why are Ubuntu images so big? by underscoring on Thursday October 26, 2023 @05:34AM (#38023534)
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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