Keep a spreadsheet of all the optional features / bloat you’re looking to remove, rate each solution as a percentage of how many of those columns it ticks, and maybe also do a review on boot time and idle RAM usage?

is there a tool that i can use to say stress test the OS as a whole that ll give me a score like how we do apache bench http tests because what is bloat might be very subjective on my part. is there a more objective measure?