01-17-2016, 04:39 PM
Well I did try Elementary OS and it was nothing of what I wanted. Yes it was flashy but to me it was more of a kids distro piled with gadgets. I am 50+ years old and the eyes aren't what they used to be. I have also noticed that it seems allot of people for some reason love dark themes at least for linux. I've also noticed that most default system tray icons are generally the same as LL gray on gray and nearly unreadable. The world of computing has changed for certain. At least windows saw then need for colored icons in the system tray and used lighter colors for the bar and offset the colors for minimized running software. Linux loves the gray on gray or gray and black look. So it's a big fat NO for Elementary OS especially with it's larger install.
Since I've been off playing with other distro's I've read the many more replies and thanks so much for your suggestions. The reason for my reasoning of trying Arch was mainly just to see the base size of what I would use in a linux environment without all the bloat. After that I will know for myself what is indeed the minimum. I know hard drives are so much bigger then in the old days but my preferences have never changed, lighter/smaller is always better as long as it's very stable. One thing certain, I will not be running any linux in a 1.5 gig compressed disk image as I did with XP into a ramdrive which is very depressing to me. I loved that setup as I could just reboot and I had a new install of my OS which is nice for getting rid of cache, lso's or piles of built up logs ect without touching a thing plus for trying out new apps.
Now as for the hoard of linux distro's out there ......... all's I can say is OMG is it ever overwhelming. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. I now see why major software companies refuse to make software for linux. And trust me when I say there are some softwares out there I wish they would make for linux such as East - tec eraser, CCleaner and O&O Defrag. Some may argue that linux doesn't need it but I know better, East-tec does a military wipe and both CC and East - tec even cleans system logs, cache, lso's and so on. O&O is mainly a defrag program but it also does 1 thing more it didn't plan on doing and that's showing files on a drive that you can't see otherwise. Those programs are golden among others. But this is more off topic and oh how I could ramble on.
Back to the hoard of linux distro's .......... by what I have seen so far linux needs to get rid of allot of these distro's and work more on making linux better instead of spending it's time splitting off in so many directions. The one's that are truely unique keep and the rest put back for a rainy day. Like I said earlier, people actually got tired of the same ole look of MS Windows over so many years but I have never heard anyone say anything bad about the readability of the bar/desktop. Colors do make a difference in certain circumstances when things are small to begin with but again adding colors to add life doesn't hurt either hense that is why folks changed from black and white tv's to color ones.
Lord I feel like I'm writing a book so off I go to try out Arch. It probably won't be what I hope but I will know the minimum install when I'm done.
Again, take care and god bless and thanks so much for your inputs.
Since I've been off playing with other distro's I've read the many more replies and thanks so much for your suggestions. The reason for my reasoning of trying Arch was mainly just to see the base size of what I would use in a linux environment without all the bloat. After that I will know for myself what is indeed the minimum. I know hard drives are so much bigger then in the old days but my preferences have never changed, lighter/smaller is always better as long as it's very stable. One thing certain, I will not be running any linux in a 1.5 gig compressed disk image as I did with XP into a ramdrive which is very depressing to me. I loved that setup as I could just reboot and I had a new install of my OS which is nice for getting rid of cache, lso's or piles of built up logs ect without touching a thing plus for trying out new apps.
Now as for the hoard of linux distro's out there ......... all's I can say is OMG is it ever overwhelming. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. I now see why major software companies refuse to make software for linux. And trust me when I say there are some softwares out there I wish they would make for linux such as East - tec eraser, CCleaner and O&O Defrag. Some may argue that linux doesn't need it but I know better, East-tec does a military wipe and both CC and East - tec even cleans system logs, cache, lso's and so on. O&O is mainly a defrag program but it also does 1 thing more it didn't plan on doing and that's showing files on a drive that you can't see otherwise. Those programs are golden among others. But this is more off topic and oh how I could ramble on.
Back to the hoard of linux distro's .......... by what I have seen so far linux needs to get rid of allot of these distro's and work more on making linux better instead of spending it's time splitting off in so many directions. The one's that are truely unique keep and the rest put back for a rainy day. Like I said earlier, people actually got tired of the same ole look of MS Windows over so many years but I have never heard anyone say anything bad about the readability of the bar/desktop. Colors do make a difference in certain circumstances when things are small to begin with but again adding colors to add life doesn't hurt either hense that is why folks changed from black and white tv's to color ones.
Lord I feel like I'm writing a book so off I go to try out Arch. It probably won't be what I hope but I will know the minimum install when I'm done.
Again, take care and god bless and thanks so much for your inputs.