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  • switched back to KDE and don't regret

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  • The difference being that in the one of those cases you still need to open a browser instance before you are able to browse the web.

    Firefox is absolutely unusable on that PC. Falkon runs much better.

  • switched back to KDE and don't regret

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  • And if you’re trying to be economical about RAM usage, things like fancy window decorations, window animations, and other purely aesthetic stuff like that can of course go.

    That's negligible at best and imaginary at worst. Themes that aren't used, aren't loaded into RAM.

  • switched back to KDE and don't regret

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  • I was playing around with an old laptop dual booting Fedora KDE and W11. And Fedora on fresh boot was using the same/more ram than 11.

    Windows compresses RAM these days, not sure if Fedora does by default. Also, by itself Windows is surprisingly RAM efficient. I think it's a holdover from Windows 8 which was developed for tablets when Microsoft tried competing with iPads.

    The problems arise when web views like the news widget load. Then all the past optimizations no longer matter.

  • switched back to KDE and don't regret

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  • Also I don’t think KDE even uses more RAM than other DEs that are designed to be lightweight. Last time I compared, it used the same or less memory as LXDE.

    Firefox without any website loaded uses more RAM than a full Plasma session.

  • switched back to KDE and don't regret

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  • XFCE is great for mid-range old devices, and LXQt is great for dogshit old devices.

    What's this device in your scale from old doghit to old mid-range?

    Runs a full Plasma session just fine. The problem isn't the desktop, it's the web browsers, especially Firefox. Falkon runs OK.

  • postmarketOS (moved to lemmy.world/c/postmarketOS 🚚🚚🚚) @lemmy.ml
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    postmarketOS is genuinely amazing on ultra low end PCs (details in the post)

  • postmarketOS is genuinely amazing on ultra low end PCs (details in the post)

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  • pmOS / Alpine Linux is definitively a bit outside my comfort zone. The apk package manager is so weird with its add and del commands instead of install and remove everyone else uses.

  • postmarketOS is genuinely amazing on ultra low end PCs (details in the post)

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  • It came with a factory reset version of Win10 but that ran so insanely bad, it kept crashing which to this degree isn't normal even for Windows which is why I suspect faulty hardware.

  • postmarketOS is genuinely amazing on ultra low end PCs (details in the post)

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  • The graphical installer is a it bare bones but easy to use. Setup is slow because in the background it generates a disk image of packages that are being downloaded and the write speed of my USB drive was a big bottle neck. Selection of native packages isn't the greatest but pmOS comes with Flathub configured out of the box. (I'm usually a proponent of Flatpak but being so memory constrained, I refrain from the overhad of loading Flatpak runtimes into memory.

  • Linux @lemmy.world
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    postmarketOS is genuinely amazing on ultra low end PCs (details in the post)

  • Formula 1 @lemmy.world
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    official F1 on YT

    Everything You Need To Know About F1's New Team Cadillac

  • Looking for a few beta testers for my Lemmy Android Client

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  • Going to try out your app. Thunder is tough competition, though.

  • Formula 1 @lemmy.world
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    Schumacher's finally embracing post-F1 life - and it's paying off

    www.the-race.com /wec-le-mans/mick-schumacher-finally-embracing-post-f1-life-and-its-paying-off/

  • [OT] McLaren to quit the all-electric Formula E series - BBC Sport

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  • Probably depends if the team in its entirety folds or gets sold. Maybe McLaren owner Bahrain sells to Saudi Arabia and the entry becomes the Neom FE Team.

  • Xiaomi global bootloader unlock policy has changed - XiaomiTime

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  • tldr:

    While earlier Xiaomi allowed users to unlock up to three devices per year, the new policy brought that number down to a single device per year and applies to both China and the rest of the world.

  • Formula 1 @lemmy.world
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    Ferrari Enters a Multi-Year Agreement With Andretti Formula Racing

    www.ferrari.com /en-EN/corporate/articles/ferrari-enters-a-multi-year-agreement-with-andretti-formula-racing
  • Formula 1 @lemmy.world
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    Official: Cadillac enters Formula 1

  • draw.io no longer free and open source software since August 27, 2024

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  • I mean this does seem kind of fair. I’m not familiar with Confluence and Atlassian but it seems something mostly aimed at corporations

    He should just use AGPL then.