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Very interesting question. Probably just boils down to my own motivations. I never chased mass adoption but I also wasn't comfortable entirely foreclosing on the possibility. On the other hand, the hardware I built for was indeed precisely the hardware I had. So it didn't feel like the two were in tension.
Feb 02 · 7 months ago
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,...