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Discussion on: Which Linux distro do you use?

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Ashutosh Dash
  1. How much time it took to set up your whole system?
  2. Do you have to download other stuff after installation? How much data did it consume?
  3. If a package is updated will my system crash?
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Chittoji Murali Sree Krishna • Edited

Hmm not much of data will be consumed, except vanilla arch rest all I have used comes with pre installed stuff, so the iso will be around 1.9 to 2.6 or higher, they will be heavy bloated,

Vanilla arch iso is like 700mb or so, but this thing only greets you with terminal, after booting into the iso you have to download the stuff which will be around 700 - 800 mb, later it depends on the desktop or window managers size, somewhere from 25mb - 400mb

So vanilla arch will comes around less than 2gb,
But it's an extremely lightweight distro, you can also make it bloated like others or more, bcz there are tons of support from pacman and aur repos

But the time taken will be depended on your network speed and SSD or hard drive speed, if you have a good wifi or network speed it won't take more than 10 min or less to configure, hard drive takes longer time to configure or open few packages, SSD makes it quick

No I haven't seen any crash till now, it completely depends on the packages you install, if you install from an unauthorised repos it will crash on new update,