this. after i set different zsh themes on my servers + my main machine i now know exactly what machine i’m running commands to
I'd say that bloat is whatever you define it to be and can vary depending on the power of your system.
I care less about how much resources apps are taking up on my desktop (32GB RAM, Ryzen 7700X), but I do bring my concerns over to my laptop (8GB RAM, Ryzen 4500U).
the one thing I cannot stand are electron apps and anything similar. they are a whole browser bundled with an unoptimized interface, and will eat up what used to be a decent amount of RAM for a laptop back then, as well as my battery life. for this reason I always try to find native apps that use less power and less RAM, which in turn improve my battery life.
this is just one example of where you can draw the line for bloat, although you are completely correct in saying that it is subjective.
Aliucord is a good client mod, not of the new react native version, but the old 126.21 version. much faster than the laggy react garbage
I think the only way to get an open-source Discord is to recreate discord (their backend).
granted it's a slow process but it can pay off if done right. I contribute what little I can to the project, as my Typescript is not the best and Discord knowledge even less.
Nearly all of them. Nextcloud, Jellyfin, Vaultwarden, Spacebar, and 2fAuth, all set behind an NGINX Reverse Proxy, SWAG. SWAG made it very easy to set up https and now I can throw anything behind a subfolder or subdomain.
Playnite. Combines all games from all connected launchers into one and configurable/themeable to your hearts desire
make sure to go team red with the GPU, they tend to have less issues on Linux than NVIDIA cards
Aliucord might be up your alley too, it has some plug-ins to backport functionality to the (better) 126 version of discord
Symfonium. Don't get me wrong, I like Finamp, but it just does not come close to the amount of features that Symfonium has.