Subj : Re: OS/2
To   : esc
From : fusion
Date : Fri Nov 10 2023 18:16:06

On 10 Nov 2023, esc said the following...
 
 es>  fu> for my main desktop though, http://kirin.dcclost.com/~alex/fsx_rc.png
 es> 
 es> That's pretty cool. I've always had respect for Slackware, it was one of
 es> my original linux distros way back in the day. I had no idea there was
 es> an OS/2 Warp DE :P

it's actually Enlightenment e16. the original team spun it off and maintain it because a lot of people still use it. then i just used the warp4 theme.

 es>  fu> basically stripped to the bones :) and very much how i remember linux
 es>  fu> a sort of pick-and-choose random pile of software
 es> 
 es> Yeah, for a while I was going super minimal. I made an Openbox desktop
 es> with a panel and a right click menu and that was basically it. I enjoyed
 es> setting it up but it was missing some QOL features so I ended up just
 es> giving Plasma a shot. Turns out Plasma doesn't eat up much more RAM than
 es> running a super minimal Openbox, so... *shrug* here I am hehe

yeah, it's actually quite impressive .. can only talk about KDE because i haven't used a modern version of gnome or whatever is hip for a really long time.. but that "huge amount of ram!!" that i remember is quite well contained.

maybe it always was and i only had puny machines :)

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