[mothered]

Debian is definitely worthy in my opinion, although it is just a general-purpose operating system. Tiny Core Linux is a very interesting one, as it is a roughly fifteen or twenty megabyte-size operating system. There are three editions of it. I have never installed it myself, but it seems very fascinating.

While not a Linux distribution, I highly recommend trying FreeBSD and OpenBSD. They are (obviously in my humble opinion) much more stable than most Linux distributions, and very well maintained. The only downside is the fact that there is not much hardware support for the BSD family, especially software support (albeit there exists ports).

Excellent advice and feedback. I've definitely taken everything under advisement, thank you.

I'm amazed at Tiny Core's size of only 16MB. I'm also downloading CorePlus, by description, It seems well worthy of Installing.

That's great! You are very welcome. Please let me know what you think about CorePlus whenever you install it, as it'd be great to know how well it functions. Also, off-topic, but thank you for the +7.  

I shall Install It tomorrow, and definitely report back with my views.

You're welcome with the +7.

[singlehandlogic]

Im still using win 7 hacked and vm i have kali.

need to get some upgrade on the win 7 thing. I kinda bit into the bait of win 10 being bad for your health kinda thing but realize most everyone uses it now... so it must be okay or, no one seems to care it still collects data on you all.

[chesterbeatdeath]

Whatever I boot off the USB I grab. I keep the files I work with on a separate server than my workhorses in universal formats. I'm comfortable running either Windows 7, 8, 10, or any flavor of Linux as long as I have root terminal access.
I LIKE my custom Windows 10 install with (almost) no Microsoft programs installed and no telemetry turned on. And I really enjoy Peppermint Linux 8 because it acts a lot like Windows, purposefully, and if I NEED to show someone something on a Linux environment, they tend to get what I'm doing when there's a taskbar and start menu where they're used to it.

[mothered]

I LIKE my custom Windows 10 install with (almost) no Microsoft programs installed

As a matter of Interest, what tool did you use to strip/customize Windows 10?

Perhaps It's WinReducer?

[chesterbeatdeath]

I LIKE my custom Windows 10 install with (almost) no Microsoft programs installed

As a matter of Interest, what tool did you use to strip/customize Windows 10?

Perhaps It's WinReducer?

Came advertised as stripped upon download. Was never able to find it on the torrent site again, so I consider myself lucky to have the image. I've done my own investigation into the install and determined every "extra" MS program not system required is uninstalled, even media player, and no other spyware was installed in place of that which MS already gives us upon install, which is all 100% turned off.
I'd love to share the image but hand to hand file trading is dead and I try to steer clear of piracy after the DCMA was enacted. I just really needed Windows 10 and can't stand their telemetry bull crap.

[mothered]

I LIKE my custom Windows 10 install with (almost) no Microsoft programs installed

As a matter of Interest, what tool did you use to strip/customize Windows 10?

Perhaps It's WinReducer?

Came advertised as stripped upon download. Was never able to find it on the torrent site again, so I consider myself lucky to have the image. I've done my own investigation into the install and determined every "extra" MS program not system required is uninstalled, even media player, and no other spyware was installed in place of that which MS already gives us upon install, which is all 100% turned off.
I'd love to share the image but hand to hand file trading is dead and I try to steer clear of piracy after the DCMA was enacted. I just really needed Windows 10 and can't stand their telemetry bull crap.

I understand with stripped-down versions, namely via torrent sites.

I've also downloaded many, but they're not always suited to my usability. I've used tools such as nLite, vLite, WinReducer to customize a given OS as per my needs.

[M00N66]

I love Windows but sometimes I find myself in VMware doing something very specific.