ISO size growing over the years?

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Linux Lite 1.4Gb

Peppermint 1.5Gb
MX Linux 1.6Gb
Mint 1.9Gb
Zorin 'Lite' 2.2Gb
Manjaro 2.7Gb

We're still the No.1 lightest distro in the top 30 that have a XFCE edition (and maybe one or 2 other DE's), but that is ofc if you use ISO size as the only measure of how light a system is.
Ya might wanna head over and tell Zorin that if 2.2Gb is 'lite' you'd hate to see what heavy is!!

So what constitutes a 'lite' distro? Majority of the package selection (in some choices features, ease of use, maintenance, look and feel are a consideration), memory footprint, cpu polling, UI navigation speed etc etc. Package growth (each package grows over time, then times that by 2000 packages) is the number one reason for increase in ISO over time in which ALL distros are subject to.

[member=6733]TheDead[/member] I like that!