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Are you a minimalist, moderate, or extremist?

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LordRaiden

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Are you a person who likes to have your PC ultra lean and running with the bare amount of programs running or installed, are you a moderate, where you neither have too many, nor too few programs install and/or running, or are you the kind of person that always has as many programs as you can get away with installed on your system, running in the background, doing tons of little things to the point where your quicklaunch bar has more icons than the US mint has coins?

What kind of computer user are you? Myself, I am a minimalist. Bloat is my enemy. The less, the better. If I need it, I install it, but I only run it when I need it after that. If I don't need it, it doesn't get either run or installed. I keep my PC very clean, and very well maintained so as to run with 100% possible speed and performance, not to mention stability.

How about you?
 
I'm a minimalist. I don't even have desktop icons or quick links. I use my keyboard buttons or shortcut keys for everything.
 
I'm pretty minimalist... Come on, I use freaking NetBSD for a desktop 😛 and it looks something like this, no stupid clunky toolbars getting in the way, nothing like that 🙂

The only real applications I use are mozilla, gaim, irssi, mutt, and the gimp. Almost everything else i just scripted. I use mpg321 to play mp3s via a script, and I use other scripts to skip to the next song, or pop up a little display for 2 seconds showing the current song, etc. FUN SHEIT 😀
 
My windows desktop consists of only a start menu, taskbar, and small system tray (no quicklaunch bar) at the top of the screen, an objectdock with my favorite shortcuts at the bottom, and that blue exploding iceball backdrop that comes with WinXP. The theme is a variant of Watercolor.

Once I get XFree86 4.3.0 set up on Linux, I'm sure my desktop there will be similar to BBWF's. 🙂
 
I start out lean, but then I just go nuts. I can never really keep using the same program for any particular task for longer than a week. After that I usually add a new one to mess around with. Add this to my pack-rat mentality and yah my desktop is pretty bloated.

I'm currently using debian with several thousand packages installed and counting. 😀
 
I always start out a minimalist, but end up as an extremist.

You should see my desktop, it's a disaster. I shudder to even think what my registry looks like. :Q
 
i fit the last catergory, when i do a major upgrade, i start the OS fresh

then it slowly builds up over the weeks/months, until its time for another major upgrade, then BOOM! , back to a clean slate
 
I prefer to install most of my programs, whether I use them consistently or not. I'm not the world's most organized soul, so it would be a pain in the butt for me to find a specific CD or disk if I needed a specific program. Might as well install it so it's there if I do need it. That said, I never actually have that much stuff runing. My quick launch bar contains a lot of comonly-used programs (Word, Excel, Frontpage, PowerDVD, TI-89 emulator, Painshop Pro, WinAmp, and a few others), but the system tray only contains 5 runing programs: Getright, Weatherbug, AIM, D2H (bandwidth monitor) and AdAware.

Nate
 
15 items in my system tray, I hot sync 3 different devices with 3 different sync programs.

I'm a wannabe minimalist.

& I need to back up that copy of Starfish true sync I found for free on the net today (wife's t720 Motorola)😀
 
like many players of simcity 4, i now have 1gb of memory. i've started not to care about stuff being loaded🙂 i used to care, thats for sure😛
 
Option 4.

It's getting bad enough that I'm starting to assign different "areas" to different PC's.

I've got so much stuff on one computer, I can't use a single program without getting distracted by another that I haven't used for awhile.
 
I'm in between minimalist and moderate. I defintely like a minimalist LOOK to my computer, but in order to take advantage of that, I use XP's theme support (some bloat) and I get some flashy wallpapers.

That said, I HATE when my computer gets bloated. I'm currently on a schedule of reformatting about once a month, and I love the feeling of getting a new install up and running.

I think it'd be a good idea for me to invest in Norton Ghost.

EDIT: screenshot.
 
Minimalist. I only install the programs that I need. If I install something to try, I also restore an old image rather than leave the bloat that a program often leaves behind.
 
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