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Are you saying Kubuntu is not as bloated as it looks? And I think Fedora will be smaller than that?
Honestly, for any semi-modern hardware, the different amount of "bloat" between any two distros is small enough to be irrelevent for most everything you would do on a computer up to and including gaming, especially compared against Windows. Yes, Arch may be less bloated than, say, Ubuntu, but are you really going to notice or care that your system is idling at 1.2 GB of RAM usage instead of 800 MB?
Don't know about Fedora. And you would have to do odd things to bloat any Linux distribution anywhere near a Winslop system.