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Re: 200 MB RAM FreeBSD desktop

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Post by FrostViper8 »

heraldgeezer wrote: post #19
ryan-c wrote: post #18

opens blog post sees lunduke closes blog post

For us not in the know, why is this bad? Is he ""bigoted"" ? :(

Lunduke is a grifter and just generally a bit of an idiot.

e.g. I remember he once claimed Google was censoring him when he was de-listed from search, this was way back in 2009. His site had a malicious iframe because the PHP CMS he was using had been compromised.

His politics are kinda irrelevant to me. There are people who are Agorist/Libertarian/Conservative tech influencers online that do decent and informative content e.g. Sam Bent.

Re: 200 MB RAM FreeBSD desktop

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Post by FrostViper8 »

bigpeopleareold wrote: post #39
Mashimo wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have no idea who he is, never heard of him. You shall not judge a book by its cover but .. he is making it hard. His video titles are: * Devuan: The Non-Woke Debian Linux Fork (Without Systemd) * NeoFetch But in Rust and More Gay * Chimera Linux is "Here to Further Woke Agenda by Turning Free Software Gay" * Are Jews the Cause of DEI in Big Tech? Yeah .. I did not watch a single video of his. But just from a short…

Whatever I might agree or disagree with, this is annoying to look at, but his stuff keeps coming up in my YouTube feed. Even it looks slightly interesting, I know it will be some rant involved about a thing not related to technology, but some developer's personal opinions on non-tech ideas. I get it - people are horrible! Sheesh! FWIW, probably not much, he said he had a Jewish background ... in, like, the one video…

You can just mute/hide a channel from your feed permanently.

Re: 200 MB RAM FreeBSD desktop

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #2

If someone wants really low ram consumption for a desktop. They should try out tinycorelinux which I have ran the whole system in It's truly the most minimalist gui option just out there. It uses flwm & there own iirc very minimalist xorg server but most apps usually work The one issue I have is that I can't copy paste text or do some simple stuff like moving my mouse on some text but aside from that, Tinycorelinux's…

> The one issue I have is that I can't copy paste text

With pure X11 you copy paste via primary selection and middle click.

Re: 200 MB RAM FreeBSD desktop

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Post by FrostViper8 »

creshal wrote: post #60
flohofwoe wrote: post #37

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> is it the UI animations, color themes, shades etc etc or is it the underlying operating system that has more and more features, services etc etc ? ...all of those and more? New software is only optimized until it is not outright annoying to use on current hardware, it's always been like that and that's why there are old jokes like: "What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away." "Software is like a gas, it expands to consume…

Indeed. Much of a modern Linux desktop e.g. runs inside one of multiple not very well optimized JS engines: Gnome uses JS for various desktop interactions, and all major desktops run a different JS engine as a different user to evaluate polkit authorizations (so exactly zero RAM could be shared between those engines, even if they were identical, which they aren't), and then half your interactions with GUI tools happe…

I've found that Gnome works about as well as other "lighter" desktop environments on some hardware I have that is about 15 years old. I don't think it using a JS engine really impacts performance as much as people claim. Memory usage might be a bit higher, but the main memory hog on a machine these days is your web browser.

I have plenty of complaints about gnome (not being able to set a solid colour as a background colour is really dumb IMO), but it seems to work quite well IME.

> Or you can ignore all that nonsense and run openbox and native tools.

I remember mucking about with OpenBox and similar WMs back in the early 2000s and I wouldn't want to go back to using them. I find Gnome tends to expose me to less nonsense.

There is nothing specifically wrong with Wayland either. I am running it on Debian 13 and I am running a triple monitor setup without. Display scaling works properly on Wayland (it doesn't on X11).

Re: 200 MB RAM FreeBSD desktop

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

heavyset_go wrote: post #68
Mashimo wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have no idea who he is, never heard of him. You shall not judge a book by its cover but .. he is making it hard. His video titles are: * Devuan: The Non-Woke Debian Linux Fork (Without Systemd) * NeoFetch But in Rust and More Gay * Chimera Linux is "Here to Further Woke Agenda by Turning Free Software Gay" * Are Jews the Cause of DEI in Big Tech? Yeah .. I did not watch a single video of his. But just from a short…

Now I want to make a Woke Linux to drive this guy insane, the CoC alone will make his face melt

Bonus points if you can make it non-binary.

Re: 200 MB RAM FreeBSD desktop

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Post by FrostViper8 »

heavyset_go wrote: post #68
Mashimo wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have no idea who he is, never heard of him. You shall not judge a book by its cover but .. he is making it hard. His video titles are: * Devuan: The Non-Woke Debian Linux Fork (Without Systemd) * NeoFetch But in Rust and More Gay * Chimera Linux is "Here to Further Woke Agenda by Turning Free Software Gay" * Are Jews the Cause of DEI in Big Tech? Yeah .. I did not watch a single video of his. But just from a short…

Now I want to make a Woke Linux to drive this guy insane, the CoC alone will make his face melt

It won't do anything of the sort. It will allow him to make 200 videos complaining about it, get a load of ad-revenue and sell subscribestar memberships.

The best thing to do with people like Lunduke is ignore them.

Re: 200 MB RAM FreeBSD desktop

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Post by BSDobelix »

desdenova wrote: post #73
heraldgeezer wrote: post #22

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For us not in the know, why is this bad?

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Please help me, Lunduke (who is a Jew) likes a project that is "nazi"?

Or is it maybe that people who call everyone a "nazi" who they disagree the real one's?

Stop degrading that word (to make common and without any weight) and use it for you crippled worldview.

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