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Re: 200 MB RAM FreeBSD desktop

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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

you're at least 10 years too late with that idea

Re: 200 MB RAM FreeBSD desktop

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post #106

I remember, in 2007, running FreeBSD on a desktop with 512MB RAM and only using 64MB of it running full GNOME 2 and a running instance of Firefox with a couple tabs. A totally standard desktop experience. Even better, my laptop at the time had only 128MB of RAM and ran Windows XP - a supported, albeit minimal, configuration. XP was bloatier than FreeBSD of course, and ran correspondingly less well, but replacing expl…

It's the web browser and electron based apps that are the primary consumers of ram on my desktops with the DE and OS ram usage being minimal by comparison. I have an ancient laptop from 2008 with 4GB of ram that runs a modern KDE desktop and related applications just fine that I use for troubleshooting stuff. However, the moment I open a web browser it basically falls to pieces. I hate everything about this. :-/

4GB still seems excessive, by at least one and probably several orders of magnitude, for what vanilla KDE actually does: browse files, manage windows, and edit text. And KDE is one of the best modern options.

Re: 200 MB RAM FreeBSD desktop

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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 c…

>Lunduke is a grifter...

And somehow you care so much you've created this account just to attack him.

I'd suggest going out for a walk.

Re: 200 MB RAM FreeBSD desktop

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Just to remind people here: a single uncompressed "4k" picture is 33MB. Have your compositor hold 10 of them and you get 330MB just for the window images.

Across multiple monitors my desktop is 6400x2160, which at 32 bits comes to 55MB.

Considering memory is slow and GPU compute these days is cheap maybe it would make sense to relayout and rerender things each frame directly into screen buffer instead of keeping the window surface buffers resident. That would require rewriting quite a lot of things though.

Re: 200 MB RAM FreeBSD desktop

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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.

These days, the label is being used to signal the labeled person is a target for violence[0].

Horrible.

0. https://world.hey.com/dhh/calling-someone-a-nazi-is-a-permis...

Re: 200 MB RAM FreeBSD desktop

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post #105

200MB for a desktop sounds massive to some of us :D Back in the day I used to have a desktop running, with applications, in just 512KB. Getting that memory upgrade to a full 1MB was amazing.

Yup, fond memories of my Amiga 500+ (full meg, woo!)

Of chip RAM, too!

Re: 200 MB RAM FreeBSD desktop

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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.

Hmm I have always been in the wayland world (KDE,Hyprland etc.) but I have been on xfce in mxlinux and I didn't need to do primary selection & middle click

I don't know if tinycore supports this. This was my biggest grievance because I had to create tmp files paste into it and then cat into it or something to work with this pain (which I feel like is pretty fixable/ maybe a skill issue from my side and honestly wishing for me to learn how to fix it)

Re: 200 MB RAM FreeBSD desktop

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Just to remind people here: a single uncompressed "4k" picture is 33MB. Have your compositor hold 10 of them and you get 330MB just for the window images. Across multiple monitors my desktop is 6400x2160, which at 32 bits comes to 55MB. Considering memory is slow and GPU compute these days is cheap maybe it would make sense to relayout and rerender things each frame directly into screen buffer instead of keeping the…

You need window surface buffers in order to do seamless compositing, scaling etc. It's quite technically possible to achieve pixel-perfect 2D rendering with GPU-side compute, but in many ways it's still an open problem.
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