Name Your Favorite Bloat-Free Software

An anonymous reader writes "I prefer software that takes as little hard drive space and RAM as possible. I can't stand bloated software like iTunes, as compared to Foobar or classic Winamp; or Windows Media Player, as compared to VLC or Media Player Classic. What are some of your favorite applications which are a little less bloated?"

Comments

Re:Oh!

[fm6]

So the particular mod awarded doesn't matter? Then let's just eliminate the fine distinctions and say "up" or "down".

But really, if I say, "Sani-Flush makes an excellent dentifrice" and someone who doesn't know what Sani-Flush is mods me up as "Informative", you'd have to admit that they're pretty clueless. Though maybe not as clueless as the person who's never heard the song and mods me down as "flamebait"!

Re:My list

[Rary]

The problem is that people keep equating "bloat" with "memory usage", when in reality "bloat" means (or at least should mean) "unnecessary memory usage".

I don't expect an application to be small. I just expect it to be as small as possible while still being as effective as possible.

Sometimes, it takes a lot of hard drive space and RAM to do all the things an application must do. Really, this shouldn't be an issue in an age where you can get a TB hard drive for under $200. But an application that's loaded with unnecessary, marketing-driven features and consumes more hard drive space and RAM than it should is a truly "bloated" application.