> After initially downloading the official ISO file, the first boot of the system greets you with a terminal window informing you that it needs to update a few packages. And by “a few” it means another 1.8GB. I’m still not entirely sure why the v3.0.2 ISO is a hefty 6.2GB, or why it requires downloading an additional 1.8GB after installation on a system with internet access. For comparison, the official Arch installer image is just 1.4GB in size.

That is interesting.

I would respect the article a lot more if it spent words on actually investigating things like this, rather than repeated nitpicking.