Ahhh, ok, yes partly a valid point. On the main machine I haven't been doing any development or testing with any of the others in the past 3 or 4 weeks, since I made the push to get everything working under Slacko 5.7.0, but I've been doing a lot of copying from them, so am not ready to give them up.
The thing is that some of them took a lot of effort and have some neat creations, and having worked my way through 30+ distros in the past year trying to find something both efficient and reliable to replace windows vista with, there have been quite a few that got pretty close to the mark once tuned sufficiently. In some cases they are just tuned/slimmed down versions of things you can just install, and in quite a few others, they are each the result of a week or two of effort replacing or creating a different desktop for some base or another. For example, Manjaro IceWM was pretty good, as well as Manjaro OpenRC with OpenBox/Tint2 and Static generated menus, or AntiX 14 Openbox/Tint2, or Crunchbang or WattOS, or Slitaz 5.0 cooker, or Slackel, or Slackel combined with Slitaz, which took some effort and is very good. Anyway, once you can't boot into them, it isn't long before you forget everything about them, and from there it gets much more difficult to reuse the code or tidbits created or tweaked. I am still taking pieces of different ones and incorporating them into my Slacko 5.7.0 as recently as yesterday, so I need to be able to get into them as long as I want that option available.
This being my main machine, going forward, it probably won't be used for new distro testing, but as you can imagine, I like to have my machines setup very similarly, so things can move from one to the other easily.
Yes, I've run the Vista laptop as my main system since 2009, and can see running this till 2020 if there aren't big changes that push me to some other path.
I'm currently tweaked to where the system itself is needing about 31 mb to run with pinboard on, and with 50 tabs of Chromium running it needs 1.9 gb of memory to do it, and it runs like greased lightning once the 50 tabs are loaded. My conky is getting close to what I want, and I need to do some hot key assignment and menu work, and get things to where I can duplicate it easily from a base CD install, so that once newer versions of the base work, I can implement them fairly easily, and yes, I'd still like to figure out how to get my old SCSI machines to work with it as well.
Here is a screenshot of my live machine with everything running on one desktop and a mem readout...
http://i.imgur.com/fgfiEjm.png?1