[HN Gopher] Fedora 34 and RHEL 8/clones Developer Workstation Se...
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       Fedora 34 and RHEL 8/clones Developer Workstation Setup Script
        
       Author : indigodaddy
       Score  : 7 points
       Date   : 2021-07-17 20:43 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | vbezhenar wrote:
       | Fedora 34 default workstation setup contains some bloat. I
       | decided to use minimal install and then added necessary packages.
       | I excluded gnome-software (along with packagekit, flatpak), X
       | server (I'm using wayland), gnome-classic and some other
       | packages. RAM consumption went from 1.5GB to 1GB after boot which
       | is significant saving for me, considering that I only have 16 GB.
       | 
       | I have no idea why those packages are not optional. Dnf is
       | perfectly fine for package management. Eating lots of memory for
       | no reason is weird.
        
         | SubzeroCarnage wrote:
         | Fedora 34 Workstation (GNOME) with only gnome-software and
         | packagekit removed idles at 650MB.
         | 
         | This is because the Fedora repositories are very large due to
         | all their extra metadata and the inefficiencies of the yum
         | packagekit backend. GNOME Software also always keeps its UI
         | loaded even when not open.
         | 
         | You might also want to free up some space afterwards: sudo rm
         | -rfv /var/cache/packagekit
         | 
         | PackageKit is nice because it allows (not so great [1]) offline
         | updates. GNOME Software is nice because it allows your typical
         | user to update and install software.
         | 
         | [1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/issues/181
        
           | vbezhenar wrote:
           | Offline updates are doable with dnf:                   dnf
           | offline-upgrade download         dnf offline-upgrade reboot
           | 
           | I'm not completely sure, but I think that gnome-software just
           | uses those commands.
           | 
           | Those commands are provided by python3-dnf-plugin-system-
           | upgrade package which is installed by default in workstation
           | set.
        
         | SubzeroCarnage wrote:
         | Of extra note, X uses more memory then Wayland (as long as you
         | have no X apps open), and classic is enabled through the use of
         | shell plugins which also uses more memory compared to regular.
        
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