Because I use something else.
Fedora linux
forums.fedoraforum.org
If anyone else thought that the standard workstation install is over-bloated, here is a nice guide for a minimal mate desktop install.
>minimal
Other than the DE, what else are the major differences?
I'm about to install either one on an optimus thinkpad (with novidia hardware there's probably lots of work to fix the tearing and energy wasting), and looks like fedora handles this config better than opensuse that still relies on bumblebee, but other than that I want to know why do you install it over the other?
>needs a lot of attention to get a basic system running
gee 10 whole minutes, wow
so Fedora is for ADHD brainlets that can't pay attention for more than 1 minute? got it
This
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Basic X-window system & GUI still count as minimal.
At least for me OpenSUSE was extremely slow af when I chose not to install anything on it compared to Fedora.
i do :)
You can add linux-libre to any distro
You can run older intel hardware without any proprietary software
I do but I have no reason to actively discuss using it.