sorry its off topic but i want to know Are there any plans to release a minimal ISO for Secure Blue?
IMO Secure Blue is pretty darn minimal. Ships without a video player and a bunch of other stuff that average distros are riddled with. What else could they strip out without making it a DIY distro like Arch?
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IMO Secure Blue is pretty darn minimal. Ships without a video player and a bunch of other stuff that average distros are riddled with.
SecureBlue currently offers only three options: GNOME, KDE, and Sway. Sway is a window manager (WM), not a full desktop environment (DE) like GNOME or KDE. Yet, the Sway ISO is 4.4 GB, while KDE is 5.0 GB and GNOME is 4.6 GB.
If SecureBlue doesn’t even include a default video player, why are the ISOs so large? Minimal ISOs, like Fedora’s, are typically around 1 GB, and installing Sway usually adds just a few hundred MB.
This suggests either poor compression or a large number of preinstalled packages. Since I’ve never installed SecureBlue, I’m not sure what the default setup includes.
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This suggests either poor compression or a large number of preinstalled packages.
It’s worse than that. 
Unfortunately, the method we’re using for ISOs contains both the installation environment and the target bootc installation image separately, effectively duplicating the size. We’ll be looking into resolving this for future ISO releases.
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I appreciated your honesty rather than hiding the truth 
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