Oddly enough, this is the first time I installed vanilla Debian. Over all I’m pleased so far in the absence of over arching bloat that I’ve seen in most distributions that aren’t Slackware. Right now I have all my usual productivity software installing: Arduino, Fritzing (which I’ve never used), Steam… you know, productivity.
At a later point I’ll get going on Linux From Scratch. I think it’s all the bloat that kills me. Any time I have Gnome, KDE, and something else all installed at once by default, it hurts me on the inside. Having a service installed and running that periodically searches the network for new services, I have to wonder why. One of the inherent advantage of Linux is it’s relative lean-ness, deny everything make exceptions security policy, and customizability ability. When two of the most popular distributions fly in the face of that, it makes me sad. It’s great that I no longer have to look at Windows 10 upgrade reminders, it would be nice to not have to look at people wanting to recreate a free version of that hell.
Maybe this weekend I should recompile my kernel. It’s been a while since I’ve done that.
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