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That's excellent, the first thing I have to do with new machines is always strip out the distros favorite tools and install the ones I use.
by Sir_Substance 11y ago
That's excellent, the first thing I have to do with new machines is always strip out the distros favorite tools and install the ones I use.
- beefsack 11y agoIf the first thing you're doing is removing packages then you might want to consider a different distro. Arch is a brilliant choice for people who want minimal footprint high performance installations.
- Sir_Substance 11y agoArch goes too far the other way. For example, it doesn't support my wireless card(s) out of the box. There's nothing particularly power user about preferring to use VLC over Parole, when I install new windows machines I remove windows media player and install VLC. My ideal os comes with: A desktop All the drivers I need A tool to get extra software (Internet explorer will do for windows, a terminal + apt-get/yum/pacman/pkgng for nixes) If I wanted to start at a command line and build my way up, I'd definitely pick FreeBSD. Really what I want though is just the desktop. Anything that sets file preferences will probably get uninstalled.
- Gracana 11y agoYeah! I don't want to use one of the super-customizable distros (which force me to have to worry about things like drivers and fonts), but I still like to do a bit of customization. A solid base like this sounds pretty cool.