My laptop is for super basic needs (i.e. not modern gaming), and I struggle to find ways to run out of its 8GB of RAM without outright fabricating the conditions to make it happen. Even when I play something like Surroundead, I’m short on graphical horsepower and still have RAM to spare.

One major detail is that I’m not using Windows.

My work machine, however, is on Win11 and only has 16 GB. And unless I turn off OneDrive, Teams and Outlook from autostarting, it will use nearly 12 GB to sit idle. It’s pretty useless.

While very true for me, the bastards of Xubuntu and Kubuntu got me hooked and over time I learned why what you said is true. The journey is worth enjoying, however one wishes to experience it

I can’t speak for them, but they did start the Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) project as a means to escape total reliance on Ubuntu and their unsavory decisions. It does seem inevitable that every distro will eventually have some amount of AI generated code, if they don’t already.

You’re not wrong, but it’s important to point out how overpriced ALL new cars are too. Within the existing pool of overpriced options, it is fairly “cheap”.

Personally I am willing to pay more specifically to avoid the surveillance nightmare that is every new vehicle, and I value simplicity over farkles, so I’m exactly Slate’s target audience. I do worry whether there are enough luddites like me to help them succeed though.

Thanks! I’ll check it out 🍻

I’ve been a long time user of Notepad++ after Notepad started inserting random whitespace characters in files, which messed up some jankety scripting I was doing at the time. Do you happen to know if Metapad is good about not adding unintended characters like that?

Well that looks cool, now I have to check that out. Thanks for sharing!

This has to be the first time I’ve seen praise for Linux audio rather than gripes - I’m glad to see it.

It’s possible to pass thru a single GPU. I followed this guide on my Fedora desktop

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eTWf5D092VY