01-15-2016, 10:26 PM
There are many things which attract and keep me in the Linux camp. But the main thing that made me really take notice was this. I have a home lab I was building. It contained a server with just one 250GB hard drive. In addition to some VMs running router images, I had some Windows based VMs and Linux based VMs. As I was running out of space on that 250GB hard drive, I noticed the Windows VMs (with a bare install, ie. no office suite, DVD burner tools, etc.) took up 3-4 times the space as my Linux based VMs which came preloaded with usable, productivity based, vetted software...AND the Linux VMs performed better. It was then that I began to seriously investigate how much I could move Linux more to the front seat and put Windows in the back seat.
To have a full modern desktop operating system like Linux Lite, with its preloaded apps, and all the other apps I've added, take up 1/3 to 1/4 of the space of a bare Windows install makes me scratch my head when I hear the word bloatware. I have a ton of apps installed in my Linux Lite build, and it still takes up 7GB or less on my root partition. I don't know if it's even possible to do that with Windows and still have it do much. I guess I have a different idea of what constitutes bloat.
Again, I'll mention Elementary OS. The readability of their panel is very nice, and it has the ability to transition with a maximized window or a changed wallpaper. Though its image file is several hundred megabytes larger than Linux Lite's, it does come as bare as a naked installation of any Windows desktop OS. You get to install nearly everything on your own, your applications menu will have less clutter, and your hard drive usage can be optimized as a result.
I'd prefer you stick around, but based on what I'm reading, that distro would seem to suit your comments.
To have a full modern desktop operating system like Linux Lite, with its preloaded apps, and all the other apps I've added, take up 1/3 to 1/4 of the space of a bare Windows install makes me scratch my head when I hear the word bloatware. I have a ton of apps installed in my Linux Lite build, and it still takes up 7GB or less on my root partition. I don't know if it's even possible to do that with Windows and still have it do much. I guess I have a different idea of what constitutes bloat.
Again, I'll mention Elementary OS. The readability of their panel is very nice, and it has the ability to transition with a maximized window or a changed wallpaper. Though its image file is several hundred megabytes larger than Linux Lite's, it does come as bare as a naked installation of any Windows desktop OS. You get to install nearly everything on your own, your applications menu will have less clutter, and your hard drive usage can be optimized as a result.
I'd prefer you stick around, but based on what I'm reading, that distro would seem to suit your comments.
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