The Heaviest Linux Distro!

Everyone is talking about the most lightweight Linux distro, but what about the heaviest one?

[YTshashmeera]

Still more lightweight than Windows 11 LOL

[atklm]

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.

[hopelessdecoy]

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.

[elalemanpaisa]

Undoubtedly its RHEL.. base install even without the flagship default DE is heavy af

[honk]

Beginner friendly is the wrong word, user friendly is the right word.

[deivedux]

Technically, Qubes OS isn't a *Linux* distro, since it doesn't use the Linux kernel. It uses the Xen microkernel that then creates Debian- and Fedora-based Linux VMs.

[seanwilson]

This dude’s face looks like the hacker mask

[munchduster]

So one is the housr full of toys and tools, the other is a bank with many vaults and paperwork.

[NebulaHatesWatchdog]

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

[kennystrawnmusic]

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).

[grnDestiny]

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

[kaya_stu]

camera focusing on this video is so much better. all elements combined it felt like i am watching a full 8 min video.
nice work bud. felt more relaxed at the end.

[luimu]

Heaviest distros are the ones with every package preinstalled like Blackarch full or Kali Everything.

[technicolourmyles]

I must know your keyboard setup, another commenter on another short said it sounds like pure heaven, and I have to agree.

[erintyres]

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.

[xheralt]

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.

[JS-hxcu]

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.

[PinakiGuptaAppu]

ZorinOS becomes perplexed since it cannot figure out what it did not do to rank top on the list.

[damienkram]

back in time there was debian and ubuntu versions with local repositories at something like 10 dvd's

[Skiamakhos]

I reckon the old school distros from around 2000ish were the heaviest. This was before most distros had separated desktop workstation builds from server builds so without going anywhere else you could set up a box to have all the desktop stuff and all the server stuff at the same time. Back then I tended to fuck with SuSE and Mandrake. I'd install 3 or 4 desktop managers & swap as the mood took me. That was some hefty install.