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And looking forwards to each new kernel release! And trimming it down to the bare essentials to minimize resource usage.

Also I knew the purpose of every process running on my box. Now I am just as bewildered as I am by Windows.

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That may be true for desktops, but on a server, you can still run a very clean system. My virtual server has 16 processes running on it, six of them "systemd-something".

Well done! I am mostly referring to the 'bracket' kernel thread processes, which were not there back in the day. I must admit some laziness here, as I could research these in just a few minutes.

I avoid Gnome and KDE for that reason: they involve too many processes.

What am I gonna do with 32,000 kflush processes?

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