thatonecoder

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[–] thatonecoder@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago

That hardware is very powerful, so Linux Mint (maybe Debian Edition) will do the trick.

[–] thatonecoder@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Keep in mind my response may have things added, as I verify and look into what you said, but here it is:

1: The Supreme Court is dominated by Republican Justices, which, if you take Trump's stance about judges being corrupt and bla bla bla, that also applies for his judges - and Trump never accepted the election loss, so the abortion right removal technically happened in his presidency.

2: I never did imply that abortion has anything to do with DOGE, I separated those two things with something called a comma (which you haven't used at all - oh, that explains it!). Medicare and Medicaid are, however, likely going to be cut off to save those juicy $1T to then give more money to the wealthy.

3: The rights being removed are not all by DOGE, but all are tied to the Trump administration, which does include DOGE.

This is officially rambling territory, but did you that if 99.99% of Elon Musk's money (assuming he has between 300 and 400 billion dollars) was evenly split between every US citizen, everyone in the US would get 1000+ dollars, and Elon Musk would still have 30-40 million?

Even if he just lost 99.8% of his money, he'd have an enormous amount of wealth ($800M), and the US citizens would still get a lot of money? Do that but 6 times (to count for every billionaire, making each keep $800M), and uni-statians would get $5K each!

P.S. Poverty only happens because the wealthy want to subjugate the working class, and make rebels not make it through.

[–] thatonecoder@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

The right for abortion, healthcare (by the DOGE bullshit), among other rights.

[–] thatonecoder@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not that bad - the start menu opens in about 2 seconds, but some apps can take much longer (highly depends, but up to 6-10 seconds). I can easily work with a minimal, Windows 9x layout, if that means I will get a significant performance boost.

[–] thatonecoder@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Yeah, it does feel like Windows XP, but that's also the beauty of it - I can customize it using the graphical editors, since the UI is not confusing, just outdated.

[–] thatonecoder@lemmy.ca -1 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

I think because: 1: I have a tiny bit of technical experience, although none with a Linux system. That's enough to use something more advanced 2: Cinnamon is basically on par with KDE, in terms of performance, which is not good at all, since my laptop's specifications are particularly sub-par.

 

Background: I am a lifelong Windows user who is planning to move to Linux in October, once Microsoft drops support for Windows 10. I use a particularly bad laptop (Intel Celeron N3060, 4 GB DDR3 RAM, 64 GB eMMC storage).

I do have some degree of terminal experience in Windows, but I would not count on it. If there are defaults that are sensible enough, I'd appreciate it. I can also configure through mouse-based text editors, as long as there is reliable, concise documentation on that app.

So, here's what I want in a distro and desktop environment:

  • Easy to install, maintain (graphical installation and, preferably, package management too + auto-updating for non-critical applications)
  • Lightwight and snappy (around 800 MB idle RAM usage, 10-16 GB storage usage in a base install)
  • Secure (using Wayland, granular GUI-based permission control)

I have narrowed down the distributions and desktop environments that seem promising, but want y'all's opinions on them.

Distributions:

  • Linux Mint Xfce: Easy to install, not prone to randomly break (problems: high OOTB storage usage, RAM consumption seems a little too high, kind of outdated packages, not on Wayland yet)
  • Fedora: Secure, the main DEs use Wayland (problems: similar to above except for the outdated packages; also hard to install and maintain, from what I have heard)
  • antiX Linux (problems: outdated packages, no Wayland)

Desktop Environments:

  • Xfce: Lightweight, fast, seems like it'd work how I want (problems: not on Wayland yet, that's it)
  • labwc + other Wayland stuff: Lightweight, fast, secure (problems: likely harder to install, especially since I have no Linux terminal experience, cannot configure through a GUI)

In advance, I thank you all for helping me!

I appreciate any help, especially in things like:

  • Neofetch screenshots, to showcase idle RAM usage on some DEs
  • Experiences with some distributions