And boy do those people get pissed off when you don't just accept their "expert" advice even though they are telling you to do the ONE thing they were requested NOT to suggest (I had actually already tried most of what they had suggested anyway).
Are you a mind reader, cause you said everything in my mind exactly as it is.
telling you to do the ONE thing they were requested NOT to suggest
Infuriating stuff.
Thank you for understanding.
Also some other person suggested installing basic debian and then install Cinnamon DE. By doing this, you can get the perks of Cinnamon(updates, kernal updates, software manager etc..) and minimalism of Debian. I don't know how true it is though. I'm gonna try it on a VM.
it goes far beyond the essentials. Mint develops a lot of GUIs for the user to be able to configure the system. I think just these plus the in-house Mint core apps would make for a sweet, lightweight and less bloated system that would have real appeal
This is what most people don't understand for whatever reason. And exactly what I'm talking about.
I want Mint's way of updating packages, installing kernels, Adding ppa, changing apt server, etc.
It's so easy to manage the system. But I just don't want the extra packages like hypnotix and etc.. Although, I can see why all those things were there, It's just me.
I ran into a bunch who laughed at the thought of a gui terminal server
I just don't understand the terminal gatekeepers. Isn't it nice to have GUI, you don't have to remember endless number of commands, right?
If you don't want GUI, then just use terminal.
Personally, I'm not afraid of terminal or anything, it may be even the faster way of doing things. But I like GUI, where every option is just laid out for you.
Thank you.