Post AbKk6gffR2k2AAol3w by trevorflowers@widerweb.org
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 (DIR) Post #AbJNwxUfdrV5IAfbVI by trevorflowers@widerweb.org
       2023-10-30T23:23:59Z
       
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       I know that folks use not-Linux on their 'puters for many reasons but I just want to put it out there that I've used ~every OS and nowadays I love the stuffing out of sway (a tiling window manager) on fedora (a linux distro).All I'm saying is that it's possible and it can be nice.
       
 (DIR) Post #AbJNwyYFi1xYZZLyj2 by seanmcbeth@arvr.social
       2023-10-30T23:58:21Z
       
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       @trevorflowers I'm on my first Linux daily-driver. I've ran Linux on my servers and old laptovers for a over a decade, but this is the first new PC I *started* on Linux.It's not even my most powerful PC right now and it's still the fastest at everything except gaming graphics. I wager, for 95% of people, fast process startup and fast file systems are way more important than gaming.I can barely stand to use my personal Windows PC for coding anymore. My work Windows PC is torture.
       
 (DIR) Post #AbJObKWfQbKuJBr2cS by seanmcbeth@arvr.social
       2023-10-31T00:05:39Z
       
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       @trevorflowers it makes me kind of wonder just how fast a modern computer could be. Because modern Linux ain't exactly immune to generational bloat, either. We've just accepted that Windows grows every year "cuz bloat", but Linux grows at about the same rate. What is all this stuff? Where we have complete transparency on the system, what more is there to do in the OS that warrants 30gb base install space?
       
 (DIR) Post #AbKk6gffR2k2AAol3w by trevorflowers@widerweb.org
       2023-10-31T15:41:18Z
       
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       @seanmcbeth Indeed, Gnome and KDE are heavy these days and the major distros include the kitchen sink. One reason I switched to a tiling wm like sway was to drop most of the visual clutter. It does mean that I use the terminal for some things that are GUI in Gnome and KDE but I'm OK with it.