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  • I was running xfce for a while on my old laptop with only 8 GB of ram. Thinking that it was the least resource usage DE. (Which i think it still is but i havent tested in a bit).

    Then i got a new pc and tried kde and to my amazment it used just a tiny bit more resources than xfce did on my old laptop. I then installed kde on that old pc and it ran perfectly well. kde had a lot more QOL compared to xfce in my opionion, with none of the jank.

    Its intersting how much different our experiences are.

    What would you recomend for a DE?








  • It’s also interesting to me how the “more free” parabola is – from my point of view – more restrictive (less freedom).

    Since it’s based on Arch the biggest differences seem to be no included non-free blobs which is cool but then it also restricts the repos that packages can be pulled from so that only free packages can be installed.

    To me, more freedom means one should be able to use any repo they want (including the AUR) and install anything if they wish.

    Just like we enjoy the freedom to sudo rm -rf /. Like maybe it shouldn’t be done but if you want, go ahead.

    I think parabola has its place as a sort of testing ground for GNU only software. But there is like a semantic issue with the word free in how GNU uses it. Especially since we have to keep telling people that it’s free as in freedom not as in cost. But then we turn around and say, “You can’t do that”.




  • Things to add:

    • war on Cash
    • impending CBDCs
    • government banning of decentralized currency
    • possibility of UBI
    • high profit medical care
    • uninsureable assets in places that are fastly becoming at risk.
    • retirement/death of the baby boomers and surplus of assets that no one will be able to afford
    • all rain water on earth is contaminated by dangerous chemicals
    • many consumer products are made with plastic/acrylic that leaks EAs
    • sprinkle in some non human aircraft recoveries as a seasoning