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@jeang3nie: you know, I am actually sold on FreeBSD. I am backing up stuff, and as soon as I can free my Samsung 980 Pro M2 drive I am going to stick it into my ThinkPad T470, and go full FreeBSD. I hardly use anything other than LaGrange and dev tools, so I am probably OK...
Oct 04 · 6 weeks ago
🍄 Ruby_Witch · Oct 04 at 05:23:
To be honest, it really sounds like Arch is the correct solution for your situation. If you're worried about what every single running process does, then using a distro that starts with basically only the kernel and building up from there may give you the best perspective over what every running process is.
I normally use the archinstall script because it streamlines things a lot and makes Arch installation completely painless, but you may not want to in your case.
Also, if you feel like the Gemini browser UI is too much for you sometimes, why don't you use a TTY Gemini browser instead? There are plenty of them out there...
Maybe https://vanilla-dpup.github.io/ would be good for you. It has few running processes and I optimized it for low CPU+RAM consumption. Unlike a minimal Debian/Alpine/Arch system you need to install and configure yourself, it's a pretty complete package.
🐉 gyaradong · Oct 05 at 10:30:
My understanding is that a lot of the complexity in today's linux comes from cgroups. It's not bad or bloated, but the threshold for understanding is high.
🦀 jeang3nie · Oct 05 at 15:06:
@dimkr I didn't realize you had an association with Puppy Linux. I learned how to use and abuse the shell on Puppy. Managed the first CE release way back in 2006 and was behind the Grafpup distro.
@jeang3nie Yes, I do, I'm a self-appointed "maintainer" of https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/woof-CE, because nobody else seems to be interested in keeping Puppy alive by fixing years old bugs and migrating away from dead stuff like GTK+ 2, X.Org and aufs. I do some new development in https://github.com/vanilla-dpup/woof-CE/tree/vanilladpup-11.0.x and maintain dpup, which is the only viable path forward IMO.
Getting Sick of Linux — My pretty minimal installation of Xubuntu, running with dwm (no desktop or related crap) is beginning to feel like a lead weight. It is plenty fast on the old i5 ThinkPad (I've been scaling down - a couple of years I only used i7's), and I have few complaints, really. But I feel like I am drowning. It is running like 200 processes, without me doing anything taxing right now. I have no clue what 95% of these are. Some are downright scary sounding: idle_inject,...