1) I routinely remove desktop search services from new installs; it's as simple as yum erase, and I find the search service utterly useless.
2) All of the desktop-focused distros include search services by default because it's what Microsoft and Apple include, so the non-technical user just assumes it's there and becomes frustrated when it's not available.
3) It's a simple preferences change to change the virtual desktop count, On my work machine (Fedora 20) I can do this with a right-click on the virtual desktop widget in the panel (KDE).

I use Fedora at work and it would play videos fine except I deliberately broke videos and audio as it's not supposed to be used for those things (it's for writing software and managing systems remotely), and I prefer to not have ads screaming in my ears from websites.

At home I have a few different flavors of Mint.  I find Mint Debian Edition to work very well with a minimum of frustration, but it's not quite as polished as the Mint flavors based off of Ubuntu.


On 09/22/2014 08:16 PM, IscreamKid wrote:
> Saturday, at the Installfest, despite cautions from Thomas, I installed CentOS on my new computer.
> 
> The install went well from the standpoint of reallocating the partitions and getting Grub to recognize both CentOS and Win 7.
> 
> When I started working with it I loaded on my files.
> Files that took forty minutes to backup took two hours to load on a faster system.
> The culprit  seems to be Tracker-miner.
> 
> It continues to drag the system down when I am trying to do other things.
> 
> I have no idea why I need an application on here to, supposedly help me find files.
> In all of the years I have worked with Linux I can think of only three instances where I have used find to locate a file, and it worked nicely, thank you.
> 
> Now I have a system that uses all of its resources to track files I will likely never ask for. Grrrrrrrr.
> 
> After that the change of Gnome and KDE to eliminate my virtual desktops is unimportant.
> 
> Would anyone like to suggest a better distro that will actually run and perhaps has more than four desktops, while running Office Libre, and plays You Tube videos in a browser?
> 
> Harold
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