Further thoughts and feedback on Linux Lite, 2.8 and 3.0.

[Digistylus]

You'll get that late in any series as software improves and more refinement comes so the OS. So look for 3.8 to be a real ripper!

Sounds great and I'm looking forward to it, 3.0 in general did a great job with the "ready to go out of the box" experience in my albeit limited testing.

Screen tearing - I'm reluctant to deploy Compton as a release. I've addressed why in the past, but to reiterate, the variables that Compton offers is not a one size fits all solution for all computers. Given that most computers don't experience it, Compton remains a sensible, viable solution option for people in the minority that experience screen tearing.

No worry on that front, even when I found out about the compton fix in the LL forum it seems some folks didn't even experience screen tearing at all, or the simple tick "synchronize drawing to vertical blank" worked fine for them. I'm starting to wonder if I have a screen tearing gremlin when it comes to xfce in general. I tried it in up to 4 machines I have, with both discrete NVIDIA GPU and built in Intel HD graphics, and they all seem to need that compton fix, or at least a 14.04 based distro with xfce on the machines I have. I think it's gremlins.  :o What is somewhat annoying is that xfce is otherwise still my favorite DE.

It will certainly have most of the features you would expect, and more

Awyeeeaa!

I take it that you mean some kind of status display.
In LL 3.2 (Beta), the Conky widget gives you most of that information, and is easily modified to show exactly what you want.

For me I'm mostly thinking of a one button convenience that shows a simple but relevant system status display, and whether or not the system is up to date if not Update(y/n), all in one window panel. I'd likely have it on the taskbar \ panel but not necessarily always displaying on the desktop, but pops up a display should I need to see it. That's just my personal preference though.

a great distro.

That it is.