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The minimal actual-machine install of a Linux distro pretty much always has a text editor, doesn't it? You'd have to be at sub-busybox levels of features to lac

The minimal actual-machine install of a Linux distro pretty much always has a text editor, doesn't it? You'd have to be at sub-busybox levels of features to lack that. While it’s true that most will have it by default my point is that you can remove them and it is supported. Some Linux distros still expose this directly in their installers. To some extent you can remove everything but the package installer but that's not exactly a supported configuration. Sure it is. Ultimately I’m not sure what you’re driving at. This technology is about making things removable and that is a good thing. The choice is in the hands of the customer.

Dylan16807 7y ago
> Ultimately I’m not sure what you’re driving at. You could already remove notepad if you really really wanted to. Encouraging it has upsides and downsides, and I am very far from convinces that the upsides outweigh the downsides. I guess my point is that it is not purely positive, so listing a very tiny positive is not enough to make this a good feature. Especially if you follow the rule of thumb that every feature starts at negative one hundred points, because extra complexity has to be earned.
- binarycrusader 7y ago
  You could already remove notepad if you really really wanted to. Not in a supported fashion, and the OS would see it as corruption and automatically "repair" it by adding back the missing files. I guess my point is that it is not purely positive, so listing a very tiny positive is not enough to make this a good feature. Let's agree that whether it is positive or negative varies with the perspective and environment in which the system is used. For me personally, this is a good thing no matter how I look at it. Especially if you follow the rule of thumb that every feature starts at negative one hundred points, because extra complexity has to be earned. The Features on Demand technology already existed, it's just now being used for more things.

Dylan16807 7y ago

> Ultimately I’m not sure what you’re driving at. You could already remove notepad if you really really wanted to. Encouraging it has upsides and downsides, and I am very far from convinces that the upsides outweigh the downsides. I guess my point is that it is not purely positive, so listing a very tiny positive is not enough to make this a good feature. Especially if you follow the rule of thumb that every feature starts at negative one hundred points, because extra complexity has to be earned.

binarycrusader 7y ago
You could already remove notepad if you really really wanted to. Not in a supported fashion, and the OS would see it as corruption and automatically "repair" it by adding back the missing files. I guess my point is that it is not purely positive, so listing a very tiny positive is not enough to make this a good feature. Let's agree that whether it is positive or negative varies with the perspective and environment in which the system is used. For me personally, this is a good thing no matter how I look at it. Especially if you follow the rule of thumb that every feature starts at negative one hundred points, because extra complexity has to be earned. The Features on Demand technology already existed, it's just now being used for more things.