By bloat I mean specifically those kde applications and games that almost all beginner friendly distros bundle in.

How debian is lightweight ? Isn’t it have too many bloats pre-installed ?

A distro i can build myself is actually lightweight. Like Arch or Void.

Ad/Promotion ?

Not recently I think. It’s around in 2022. Acquired by Valnet Inc.

So XDA developers page too is affected by AI Slop.

Tumbleweed is good but everytime I debloat it via the myrlyn in installation window, it breaks and fail to boot. Have issues with ctrl+alt+f2. No built in recovery tools like fedora or maybe i can’t find it if it’s there.

The packages are updated as a group which means no matter how much i debloat, it will always return. I fear using addlock can cause any dependency issues also.

Not for modern hardware from my experience. Instead of suggesting one distribution, I would say Debian for some old hardware models and fedora is the sweet spot for modern hardware.

Adblocker is the minimum requirement for modern web.

Not me. But the author.

It has always been free on f-droid.