Ya know, I don't blame you on that one!
That Spectrum Vega doesn't look keyboardy enough
I like the real thing more than the redo, I think.
EDIT: ...so as not to bump and irritate. Checked out Linux Lite on one of my tinkerin' machines, an ASUS 1005HA netbook. Booted from USB (a tool on the Puppy forum called ISOBooter -- much easier to use even than Unetbootin, which I've never had work properly outside of Windows). Very friendly -- and fast! Puppy is considered one of the faster distros out there. I use a remix (it's complicated) called "X-Tahr 1b3" which is based on TahrPup which in turn is based on Ubuntu Trusty Tahr -- like Linux Lite is. X-Tahr has, by way of comparison, the following baked-in apps -- XFCE+Thunar, Firefox 38, Abiword (WP), GNumeric (spreadsheet), Sylpheed (email), mtPaint (drawing), eVince, and a few miscellaneous smaller bits and bobs that I can't be bothered to remember. Linux Lite has more professional stuff -- I see LibreOffice and the GIMP in there -- and it's marginally faster, just enough to notice.
I'm highly impressed.
For the record, I also looked at Linux Mint on the same machine (I'd been able to install it to the same drive) and I was... far less enthused. Definitely slower than Puppy, couldn't install from the software center (not even an error message!)... and I had to start Firefox in Terminal, it wouldn't run from the menu (no error shown there, either... hmm...). Rather a mess, if you ask me. Even the default desktop wallpaper there is shameless self-promotion. Here it's a feather, which I suppose is in a similar vein, but it's rather more... subtle. At least, it is to me.
That Spectrum Vega doesn't look keyboardy enough
I like the real thing more than the redo, I think.EDIT: ...so as not to bump and irritate. Checked out Linux Lite on one of my tinkerin' machines, an ASUS 1005HA netbook. Booted from USB (a tool on the Puppy forum called ISOBooter -- much easier to use even than Unetbootin, which I've never had work properly outside of Windows). Very friendly -- and fast! Puppy is considered one of the faster distros out there. I use a remix (it's complicated) called "X-Tahr 1b3" which is based on TahrPup which in turn is based on Ubuntu Trusty Tahr -- like Linux Lite is. X-Tahr has, by way of comparison, the following baked-in apps -- XFCE+Thunar, Firefox 38, Abiword (WP), GNumeric (spreadsheet), Sylpheed (email), mtPaint (drawing), eVince, and a few miscellaneous smaller bits and bobs that I can't be bothered to remember. Linux Lite has more professional stuff -- I see LibreOffice and the GIMP in there -- and it's marginally faster, just enough to notice.
I'm highly impressed.
For the record, I also looked at Linux Mint on the same machine (I'd been able to install it to the same drive) and I was... far less enthused. Definitely slower than Puppy, couldn't install from the software center (not even an error message!)... and I had to start Firefox in Terminal, it wouldn't run from the menu (no error shown there, either... hmm...). Rather a mess, if you ask me. Even the default desktop wallpaper there is shameless self-promotion. Here it's a feather, which I suppose is in a similar vein, but it's rather more... subtle. At least, it is to me.