I don't really care who you are or anybody else here is ...
I only care that you people learn reasonable thinking.
Your sound Volume button as example ...
Artim wrote: ↑9. Aug 2022, 20:43
One of the things Data taught me is that a computer is designed to serve a purpose [...]
Now, what exactly is a purpose of a computer for MOST people?
MOST people need only the basics: web browser, office, image viewer and audio and video player.
Artim wrote: ↑9. Aug 2022, 20:43
[...] and that a whole bunch of unneeded extra stuff only consumes resources and complicates matters unnecessarily [...]
And so, we get 'Install multimedia codecs', Asunder CD Ripper, Exaile, Parole Media Player, PulseAudio Volume Control and Xfburn, BUT NO sound Volume button on the panel?
Can't you notice the brain-dead nonsense here?
If we apply that (stupid and false) reasoning from before, "Not all users might want this (or even have an audio card installed), so it's [volume button] not included by default", than why even include any of that multimedia stuff?
Not everybody (< 1 %) has a sound card --> no volume button --> no audio / video player --> no multimedia codecs --> no bloat and "unneeded extra stuff [that] only consumes resources" is a logical chain.
However, since one does include Parole and '1-click easy-install multimedia codecs' as a convenience for the (> 99 %) users, the volume button MUST be there.
Even more so, if one does include really unneeded stuff like 'renew icon cache' ...
Artim wrote: ↑9. Aug 2022, 20:43
[...] and complicates matters unnecessarily,
which is why so many of my people are scared of it! SalixOS keeps it simple [...]
Exactly the opposite is truth (AND THE HARD FACT).
People are scared of 'it won't work OOB' as in our example, where SalixOS makes one of the most essential things unnecessarily complicated.
It is exactly 2 clicks to remove the Volume button from the panel, right-click on the icon and left-click on 'remove', but adding that icon takes at least 9+ clicks -- if one even knows how to do it at all.
If I look at all those 80+-years-old people which I'm supporting, it's easy to say what is bloat ...
They are the perfect example for technophobes, as they do not know how the computer works, nor they know how to use it.
How many of them were changing the Hostnames, renewing icon caches ... NONE -- EVER.
How many of them ever used Meld, GIMP, Transmission or Pidgin? NONE.
How many of them need Asunder, Exaile and Xfburn? NONE.
How many of them used web browser, image viewer, audio and video player (AND Volume button)? ALL -- EACH AND EVERY.
So, here you get your nonsense and your bloat ...
P.S.
Artim wrote: ↑9. Aug 2022, 20:43
Perhaps you could do more good in the Ubuntu forums, or Mint or ElementaryOS than here trying to reproduce their bloated stuff here.
No, definitely not.
They don't need modernizing, as they all look good OOTB, AND -- they know the difference between the 'essential' and 'bloat'.
No GIMP or Meld preinstalled there, and the sound volume button which is essential for EVERYBODY (> 99 %) is there.