> > > And yes, i can and have disabled all that. But the fact that the > > Ubuntu devs thought it was a good idea in the first place tells me > > that they have an even more limited user base targeted. than the usual > > Linux developers and i am not in that user base. > > Of course. Nobody who knows anything about GNU/Linux is going to be > happy with the default configuration. That is no reason to dismiss > the entire system. I stripped off most of the daemons from my > installation and installed e17. The truth of the matter is that most > computer users are attracted by systems with gazillions of easy-to-use > bells and whistles, and most computer users have fast enough computers > to handle word processing and web browsing (the only two things most > computer users will do) with these CPU-clogging features. > i installed precise from the core tar.gz. super fast download. byoui. no bloat. but then, if you go and apt-get install some-desktop, well, that's another matter. lubuntu-desktop is pretty fair. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20120425/f1452348/attachment.html>