Almost every linux distro is better on RAM than Windows. That said, application memory management has gotten pretty sloppy over the past decade or so. I boot into MX linux (KDE) on my 16GB RAM laptop, and I am using about 2GB after boot. Once I load my password manager and open my browser (Librewolf with 18 tabs) I am sitting at 5.4GB used.

But! Even when this laptop had only 4GB RAM, it always ran MX fast and never complained about low memory.

Edit: Try the xfce version of MX linux. I think it’s the lightest on resources, or it used to be.

Sort of like GrapheneOS does, right? I don’t actually have GOS, but I thought the installer worked like that. Otherwise, there’s always the WSL that I think is how I installed Ubuntu (just as a test!!! I haven’t used Ubuntu since 2009) inside Windows 10 a few years back.

I absolutely hate commuting. If there’s one thing I learned in the spring/summer of 2020, it’s that not driving to work is awesome.

This. If I take another 1st shift job, I will make sure it’s 10hr shifts with the same week day off weekly.

Nice try, murderous relative!

Edit. The post body took an unexpected turn…

bagder disclosed this report.

May 4, 2025, 3:52pm UTC

Let’s show off how these “reporters” work

Love it

Ty

Fine. Forget about it.

Looks very cool

Life is strange was a fun series for me and my SO. We’re glass we played the oldest ones first, too.

Do you like civilization or other “builder/planner” style games, like Cities Skylines, or Surviving Mars. Raji was kind of fun and laid back, too.

Plex stopped being useful to me in 2019. At the time I had only about 300 movies and the same number of TV episodes. The database kept getting corrupt, causing long load times of video info pages, or perpetual spinning progress indicator. After fixing the database (and losing all watch metadata each time) three times in one year, I moved to a plain file share served from the NAS with Kodi running on my Nvidia Shield.

In seven years, Kodi’s local DB has never corrupted. I now have 900+ movies and 2500 TV episodes. I can handle any file type, any video CODEC, can play thousands of games from the internet game library. The DB can be easily backed up and imported into a new install if needed.

And the best part? I didn’t pay anyone to access any of the media I own, and no corpo gets access to my library or watch history.

Forget Plex.

Pedantic comment of the day

as residential networks are want to do

The word you’re thinking of is “wont” pronounced the same as “want,” which makes it pretty confusing for anyone who might not have read it before, but only heard it spoken.

😂

I was fed formula. I have no allergies.

We are in agreement

Not a historian, but wasn’t that boom hugely from war profiteering and the fact that none of the bombs went off in the USA? Our factories were all spun up and ready to go while most of Europe was rebuilding. Oh, and the decimation of German and Japanese industrial or technical powers.

But to your point, many graphs showing how much wages have flattened disproportionate to production do show that the period in question was a better time for the average worker.

Agreed. Even Mint is better, though I’m messing more with Fedora through Nobabra presently. However, if I needed stability, I’d be using MX Linux, based on Debian Stable and updates vetted.

I don’t update my Keepass db often enough to need syncing. Maybe every other week or so I just pull the latest backup from my desktop from backblaze b2 to my phone, or if I change something on the phone, I send a copy to myself using signal “note to self.” Then I manually merge the databases.

Pretty low-tech.

Format your cells to be text and there should be no data related behavior like you describe.