Illecors

That's not really the case. Have a look at AUR or GURU repo - most proprietary software is installed by simply applying the same steps an apt, dnf, whathaveyou package manager would.

Thank you very much!

Wait, what? That's so cool! Care to share somewhere I can start looking into this?

I don't know the size in bytes, haven't cared much about it for some time now. It also very much depends on the definition of minimal. My minimal != your minimal.

I'm referring to use flags, which allow me to not have a bunch of features I don't use compiled to begin with. Less code - fewer headaches.

I run Gentoo.

It's made my fundamentals stronger.

It allows me to run the minimal number of codepaths.

Every now and then it makes me happy. Sometimes proud of myself. All because I solved some problem that was helped by the mindset Gentoo had set up.

Network? That's a small bit. DB is struggling with IO at times, but network usage is fairly low, at least on my end.

It was meant as a tongue in cheek, not a dig at you :)

Much appreciated!

Any explanation for the mathematically challenged?

I think you missing just a few zeroes there.

panzerpanzerpanzer

I actually think you do not, in fact, know enough. VPN does not care about layer 7. Having some proxy forcefully rewrite random domain names will immediately lead to redirect loops and will be disabled that same day because everyone will be screaming "internet no worky".