This is just motivating me to build my own ubuntu distro tbh, starting on a stripped down LTS, probably bionic beaver btw. This is something I'm pondering since a while now, and it's not too much of a pain in the ass with cubic, it takes a bit of time
Now idk what I would put on it as default DE, probably just i3 and that's it, I'm very tempted to do just that to begin with, and remove all the garbage programs shipped with it, like the lame ass video player and audio player and put vlc instead
I should probably also add the option of going for a more, let's say conventional actual DE, something similar to slitaz 4 https://pic8.co/sh/oooszw.jpeg <- look, not only it's lightweight and fast, it's actually NOT ugly as fuck like the fecal thing unbuntu team managed to come up with, and what else do you really need beyond that? Nothing, it's just good enough
I'm not keen on systemd, but avoiding it in Linux is getting harder.
I'm using linuxmint as a base and replacing the default UI with i3, getting rid of whatever POS media players with VLC and cmus.
I've just switched off intel/nvidia onto amd/radeon and I'll be checking amdgpu support in BSD to see if it's a tenable path.
Edit: I'm watching updates so I can dump this network manager shit and replace it with wicd again.
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