provide build in easy feedback-communications to digest, collect,
analyze user's needs and progress from there
(more security, stability and faster boot is laways better X-D (in that
order))
aka: what is REALLY needed (comes per installed per default) and what is
optional/can be installed by user later
imho the minimalistic approach is my favorite: have as little software
installed/running as possible
and then gradually add stuff as needed
to gradually improof the OS in a user-centric way
right now pretty happy with Debian 10 and 11 + MATE 2 Desktop (not as
minimalistic as xfce but not as bloated as Ubuntu Desktop X-D)
and usually without a lot of tinkering it works out of the box on most
hardware
