The apps installed aren’t really apps that actually get used very often. They’re things like widgets that someone installed for her or suggested she try, random applications that my younger brother installed one day while using her computer, an application that rotates the wallpapers automatically from some wallpaper site, etc. Basically stuff that was put on there on a one-off, and then never really cleared out.

Maybe stuff like this seems like a good idea, but inevitably it just ends up cluttering up the system…

First you mention 4 years of application buildup.

Then you suggest a bare bones OS that doesn’t do anything except allow for browsing.

Does not compute :S