I have long been performance-hungry, and I don't mind spending hours in tinkering my desktop/laptop for maximum speed and performance. During my long 15 years of tweaking and tinkering I found PCLinuxOS 2008 MiniME to be the best, because it has already been tweaked and tested for me.

MiniME seems the ultimate jump off point for the most stable desktop and usable desktop for me. It is devoid of any sorts of bloat. And you are free to pull in required packages from the repository. I had a installed just the following packages. Now my system is beautiful with sophisticated pclinuxos beauty, plus it gives me beast-life performance.

List of packages I installed:

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