No pro at doing all the things I do first off! Now with that said, after working/building 3 linux OS's of my own, this above fact has really come to light! WARNING MAY CONTAIN OFFENSIVE COMMENTS TO GNOME AND KDE: With that warning out of the way, I was building my 3rd OS and found once again slammed with useless garbage over the more important workings of a desktop! Is is really really important and crucial to a desktop that I have a 100mbs of Wallpapers I hate, over KDM functions????Then is it detrimental to the workings of a desktop that I have 20 games that start with gnome over a network manager that helps me connect to the internet?????
I am simply astounded and repulsed by some of the things I am finding! Personally, I feel what is the need for those wallpapers if I will never boot to the desktop, right???? Next, what good are those gnome games if I can not even control any settings on the desktop or connect to the internet????
Now for some of you on here, you have not tried to build your own OS, so what I am listing here, is basically Greek or foreign to you. Still, you can start to realize why you look in your menu's and see all this useless trash that you wish was not there!!!! So if you read through what I am writing, you may understand some of the headaches those of us that build our own systems are going through. Now remember, some of us that are great at this such as TheeMahn, you now reap those benefits. So, if you feel some of these items am describing could be better left out, you will begin to understand why they are there!
Now, say I decide I want to remove gnome-nibbles right??? What is the cost? I loose gnome, gnome-core, gnome-shell. Basically, I am up the creek without a paddle! Same goes for that 100mbs of Wallpapers. Personally, I wish I could just dump most of those put about 10 of the background pics I really use and save about 80 megs! Maybe, then instead of those space hungry programs, I could then have a program that would assist me in some task I could do on the computer???
Perhaps, like opening a connection to the internet or burning a DVD????
Next, do I really need 10 terminals???? Don't you think one can do the job or maybe even 2 but more than that isn't it a bit of an overkill? I know 10 is exaggerated but is not too far off when you have multiple desktops. Remember, most of these terminals will function on every desktop, so this is why I feel is overkill. Is also beyond horrific when you find out if you want to remove a program you may wind up destroying the whole system or close!
Once again, I am going to get on the whole architecture trip! I really think there needs to be something in-between so a simple removal of a program will not bring down the OS. Sometimes, there are small pieces of software that if removed would simply shatter the OS! This is not good at all! I am calling for a fix to this! What are we going to have when the main creators and developers of Linux die off???? Will simply die with them if we do not come up with something to fix this! We do not want this to happen!!!! In my book would be a total disgrace to these brilliant minds that devised this whole Linux environment. 90% of the blame I place on those of us that do not care about the future of Linux!!!
We see TheeMahn's statements of "bulletproof" and need to insure the underlying core is going to be strong also! Am no genius at any of this and never claim to be. In fact I constantly say I have far to go! Now maybe someone more educated than myself can tell me how I can safely remove a part such as "colord" and replace it without any consequences???? Remember this is just an example, but also on one of my experiments have tried and the consequences are not so good at all! In fact this is what brought down my second OS! On a whim to satisfy all dependencies for gnome-shell, I replaced 4 items and the result toasted the whole OS! A really funny joke to this? I found out gnome shell always has unsatisfied dependencies and there is no cure of it! Why do you think, there are so many problems with it???? KDE, when calling on it in this time of distress, I found out instead of having some crucial components that could have booted me to the desktop where I could then fix my ailing OS was replaced with the much more important wallpapers!!!!! Now isn't that special?????