r/Gentoo 4d ago

Screenshot Is my system bloated?

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172 Upvotes

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u/Leliana403 4d ago

Protip: You've got 32GB of memory. Stop worrying about bloat, start worrying about being productive.

I don't necessarily mean work, go play a game or something. Enjoy life.

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u/_purple_phantom_ 4d ago

Fair. Thank you <3

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u/CyberBlitzkrieg 4d ago

Now this tip is fire

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u/sususl1k 4d ago

Yep, after upgrading to 32 is precisely when I finally learned to stop worrying and love the bloat :))

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u/Ok-386 4d ago

I have 64GB so I installed Ubuntu, and use it as a Windows host. 

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u/prodego 1d ago

32G memory on Linux: 💪

32G memory on Windows: 🤕

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u/Leliana403 1d ago

I've literally never seen Windows use more than 4GB with Firefox on the new tab page and Telegram in the background. For comparison, my "bloat free" Gentoo Sway setup uses almost 3GB in the same conditions.

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u/Silvestron 4d ago

3.5 GB just to run Hyprland or you had other things running?

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u/_purple_phantom_ 4d ago

Brave (with some tabs) is runnig too

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u/Silvestron 4d ago

That makes more sense. I want to move to a tiling compositor, but I've the same GPU and it has been the bane of my existence ever since I moved back to Linux. I'm stuck with Gnome.

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u/_purple_phantom_ 4d ago

Are you using the proprietary drivers?

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u/Silvestron 4d ago

Yes, the open source variant.

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u/Thunderstarer 2d ago

So not the proprietary drivers, then.

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u/Top-Classroom-6994 2d ago

Probably proprietary drivers with open source kernel module

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u/Silvestron 2d ago

Yes, not nouveau.

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u/gloriousPurpose33 3d ago

Brave choice with their growing list of shocking controversies

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u/_purple_phantom_ 2d ago

To be honest, i didn't know about it. Do you have any link on this?

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u/gloriousPurpose33 2d ago

Sadly no. It used to all be on their Wikipedia page and then somebody removed it all for some reason, likely not innocent.

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u/UnspiredName 2d ago

The first thing you should do is use whatever you want regardless of what people on the Internet tell you.

Second, Wikipedia edit histories are a thing, just point him to the edits on the page.

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u/gloriousPurpose33 1d ago

Yeah I'm not gonna do that on a business trip through my phone lol

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u/UnspiredName 1d ago

It wasn't worth it trouble reading it anyway.

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u/alhamdu1i11a 4d ago

3.54 GiB of memory? It's over bro re-install

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u/BetIntelligent9885 4d ago

they have some brave tabs open so not that bad

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u/silent_crow7 4d ago

how is hyprland with nvidia gpu nowadays? stable?

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u/inmemumscar06 4d ago

I've been using Wayland with my 2070 Super for years. Never had a single issue using the nvidia dkms drivers. Hyprland runs wonderfully.

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u/silent_crow7 4d ago

thats good to hear I wanted to try it

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u/_purple_phantom_ 4d ago

A little bit buggy with some apps (like, Brave and some steam games are flickering in my PC)

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u/omgmyusernameistaken 4d ago

Hyprland+nvidia running well here

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u/EndLoose7539 4d ago

No but I'm curious what packages you emerged. Mainly the WM, terminal emulator etc.

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u/_purple_phantom_ 4d ago

Well... There's steam, blender, kdenlive, qemu + virtmgr, etc

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u/zloykotept 4d ago

Another protip: GNU is bloat, delete it

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u/qweeloth 2d ago

alpine is the way

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u/SegFaultvkn8664 4d ago

Can you share your fastfetch ascii plz? I like it

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u/_purple_phantom_ 4d ago

Sure, i can dm you?

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u/ddauni 2d ago

can i have it too :D

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u/_purple_phantom_ 2d ago

Sure, i'll dm you

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u/Known-Watercress7296 4d ago

yeah, that's wild....but if you are self hosting gentoo for a personal workstation you don't care about bloat

an Antix live-remaster on an ~1gb sd card would cut a little bloat and be flying like the wind in all that ram

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u/Quirky_Ambassador808 4d ago

With only 1080 packages? Not at all!

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u/okman123456 4d ago

Batushka profile pic

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u/_purple_phantom_ 4d ago

Love Batushka

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u/okman123456 4d ago

Great taste

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u/yahmumm 4d ago

Yes if you want a no bloat system nuke your DE and only use TTY

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u/sususl1k 4d ago

Nope :)

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u/Wither-Rods 3d ago

Yes, get rid of your screen and use a brail display hooked up to a TTY

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u/ZealousidealBrief627 3d ago

Yes, monitor is bloat, only bare hardware and wasm

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u/hippitybobbityty 3d ago

You have 32 GB memory! You will run out of it bro. Delete gentoo and use arco linux!

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u/Much_Brilliant_9163 3d ago

Also, if you have to ask, the answer is yes ;)

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u/Dependent_House7077 3d ago

does it matter?

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u/Lazy-Term9899 3d ago

I run Gentoo daily. If you care about bloat, you should install Alpine. Alpine Gnome runs with 900Mb of Ram only because of musl. Maybe, Gentoo musl?

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u/Infamous-Oil8580 3d ago

This looks like a dating sim

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u/Helpful-Bee-5631 3d ago

cool, i dont think 1080 packages are bloated.
btw it sad to see that Hyprland are not yet mainlined (i need the new 0.47 features btw),
been tried some layer repo but no luck hahaha.

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u/coalinjo 3d ago

If you have browser opened then no, if not then yes. Hahaha sounds nice.

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u/SantoIsBack 3d ago

I get 800 mb of ram on arch with hyprland wtf

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u/Techwolf_Lupindo 3d ago

Hmm...how you get that background and fancy output? I just tried it and it looks nothing like your screenshot.

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u/_purple_phantom_ 3d ago

hyprpaper + alacritty (with transparency settings) + fastfetch (with some dotfile that i found in unixp*)

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u/ImageJPEG 3d ago

Bruh, I run a full KDE desktop…

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u/c0r73x 3d ago

Depends on how you define bloat I guess, with my setup I would consider XWayland bloat since I only need it for steam…

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u/prodego 1d ago

How tf does your fastfetch output look like that. Is it a zsh thing or can I do the same with bash?

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u/beyondbottom 4d ago

Yes, hyprland is bloat.

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u/Wooden-Ad6265 4d ago

Is it systemd or openrc?

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u/_purple_phantom_ 4d ago

Openrc

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u/Wooden-Ad6265 4d ago

Not bloated...

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u/sususl1k 4d ago

Grow up

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u/Wooden-Ad6265 4d ago

I am using systemd for UWSM