• drkt
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    8 months ago

    Well that’s because you’re using a bloated distro. That’s the cost of all those features.

    My laptop, at 1.5 gigs of RAM, is blazing fast and has a smooth UX with a Debian+i3wm install.

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      8 months ago

      Blazing fast as long as you are only text editing and dont open a web browser.

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        8 months ago

        Works fine with Firefox, but yes. That’s 90% of what I do at a PC.

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        Okay, Jimmy Neutron. The meme said Linux, it did not specify that it was a Linux-based OS. The kernel uses a roughly similar amount of memory, it’s all the other crap in userspace that makes the difference.

        If you want to be a pedant, get it right next time.

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        8 months ago

        What goalpost you potato? What was said basically amounts to “your experience differs because of (completely optional customizations)”