Question Anyone have experience with Tiny 10?

[jamesdsimone]

After getting annoyed with MS BS with Windows 10, I ended up installing Tiny 10. So far very impressed. All the MS bloatware is gone and though I had to tweak the malware settings some most of it was already removed. I did have to install some third party software for simple stuff like reading documents. Supposedly, they left Wordpad in but apparently not. Anyone run it long term? And if so any issues?

 

[mindless1]

The only time when I felt, long term, that a Tiny distro was a good idea, was long, long ago, when I ran a Tiny Win2K (or was it XP?) off a compact flash card in a ruggedized system. This was of course before SSDs.

Otherwise, I'd get a tiny distro installed and be like "this is great", until it wasn't, until I tried to install something and it had dependencies that were missing or I couldn't apply the next service pack or patches, etc. It just ended up seeming like I could disable services myself and storage and memory wasn't at such a premium any longer so there wasn't a point. I mean I also dabbled in Windows embedded for a while and also, little point unless you really are building an embedded single purpose system that won't change at all for years. Just my 2 cents...

 

[DigDog]

i used Tiny10 for years, and i was on a similar debloated W7 before that. i think LTSC is superior to Tiny10, but not by much. You need to go back to pre-SP1 XP for the last time i ran an official OS, and even with SP1 and SP2 i was debloating it manually, mostly through registry hacks.

my problem with both T10 and LTSC is that i can't leave well-enough alone; i remove even further useless garbage and block all updates, and eventually i too get to have a system that cant run this or that software because i've not only removed dependencies components, but i've ripped them out so thoroughly that Windows doesnt even give you error messages anymore regarding what's missing.

my solution generally is just to not use X software but use Y instead that installs fine.

also yes, this is a price im happy to pay.

 

[DigDog]

After getting annoyed with MS BS with Windows 10, I ended up installing Tiny 10. So far very impressed. All the MS bloatware is gone and though I had to tweak the malware settings some most of it was already removed. I did have to install some third party software for simple stuff like reading documents. Supposedly, they left Wordpad in but apparently not. Anyone run it long term? And if so any issues?

oh by the way, wordpad, photo viewer, etc are in W10, they just need to be reactivated.

 

[jamesdsimone]

Otherwise, I'd get a tiny distro installed and be like "this is great", until it wasn't, until I tried to install something and it had dependencies that were missing or I couldn't apply the next service pack or patches, etc. It just ended up seeming like I could disable services myself and storage and memory wasn't at such a premium any longer so there wasn't a point. I mean I also dabbled in Windows embedded for a while and also, little point unless you really are building an embedded single purpose system that won't change at all for years. Just my 2 cents...

The previous install of Win 10 was just a pain and it was easier to start over than try to figure out what settings were giving me a problem. I don't need this computer for everyday use. I have everything I'll be needing installed and running. It is installed on one of my HP z420 workstations so don't need any updates.

 

[tcsenter]

Since W10 (official public release) these Tiny OS installer projects are becoming less relevant than they used to be, because Microsoft has done some decent work into not loading a lot of processes except to check for integrity and then either suspends the process or unloads them unless required for other components that are far more commonly used or moving many to "on-demand" start. So while these are taking up space on the storage drive they may not be utilizing as much memory resources as prior OS.