I do aknowledge the positive points of TC (class concepts!). My atraction is for small/fast/secure linux, whatever the "distribution".Sorry, I do not intend o offend anyone. I am glad that I can grab for free a quality linux distro like TC.
But I am unhappy with the focus of linux (in general, not TC specific) on comercial (greedy capitalism) and server type improvments. For me linux is a hobby. I hate Windows (embrace and destroy), same for Mac OS (closed source), and not happy with linux:
-bad evolution (IMHO) from OSS sound (cobra speed) to ALSA (monkey) further to Puls-audio (the elephant in the room). And Firefox (the only free and trusted browser need for bank-account secure transactions) is bloated with less-useful things and linked to pulse-audio.-UEFI forced on us, useless GPT partition for laptops.-systemd like a cancel, never ending in useless feature for home-office user.
For me, as a common desktop user, what maters is longer batetry life (less electricty), low fan speed (less noise), less used RAM (cheaper laptop), functional keyboard etc. So much energy is used today to develop linux, with so less improvment in my needs. I realy do not care about extra colors, extra menus. FLTK is just enought/beautiful.My "productivity" increase is ZERO with new GNOME, KDE trimings. And yes, security matters more and more today.Sorry, for providing unsolicited information.