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I am disagree with you.
What does bloated mean to you? What is the harm in having extra packages installed, if you don't use them?
Wasted disk space and bigger attack surface.
Disk space is the only factor. There's no bigger attack surface you don't use the packages.
They could have privilege escalation bugs or help hiding and/or running unwanted code.
That's a good point. I'd argue however that if you're running malicious, unprivileged code on your desktop computer, you're pretty much screwed regardless, since you likely use sudo frequently and it could just keylog your password. But there are certainly some security downsides to having too many packages installed.
Yeah, if you don't have proper sandboxing and use sudo or similiar getting root on a desktop probably isn't that hard.
Maybe someone should tell browser developers :D
If u have less storage or less ram, bloats effects your system very visibly.For ex manjaro gnome eats 1gb when you open your pc.
That's Gnome, not Manjaro. If I recall, the main Manjaro distribution is based on XFCE. If you care so much about bloating, why would you intentionally choose gnome, which is widely known to be heavy weight?