Yeah it is, unfortunately. They could be way smaller than they are now. I think one of the reason is that they ship with full desktop environments like GNOME and KDE. They just wanna try to cover the use case of as many users as possible. The best kind of distros really are the one where you just have your very minimal base system and you install your own packages on top of that.
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