Jean-luc Peak-hard

My Linux system (which used to run Window so it has 32 GB of RAM), won’t even hit 8 GB if I’m not gaming. I’ve opened up multiple apps just to show how efficient it is. I think it was sitting around 4 GB before I started running things to see if I can make it balloon easily.

And I’m running most my apps as flatpaks which I’ve heard may add some slight overhead in terms of RAM usage - someone correct me if I’m wrong about this.

My work computer (granted it likely has tons of background security tools running) uses 10/16 GB’s just to get to the desktop and do nothing. The best part is, because ~1.2 GB’s of RAM gets allocated for the integrated graphics, I’m really only left with ~4.8 GB’s of RAM to do actual work. But wait, it gets even better! This week I found out some bullshit Copilot feature was enabled and taking up another ~1.2 GB’s of RAM, leaving me with a total of 3.6 GB’s of RAM. So I disabled the WSAIFabricSvc service and reclaimed a sliver of dignity and work space.

There’s a lot of people posting their own stories about how their flavor “just works”, which is great, but all just anecdotes. The reality is, statistically, anything that changes often is more likely to fail.

I installed the flatpak version and it worked without any tinkering, even Windows games. I’ve tried the “official” install method (a few years ago now) and ran into problems. I go for flatpak nowadays for simplicity. Lets me have a rock-solid OS and up-to-date apps.

For anyone who cares, Bluesky is not meaningfully decentralized and can be easily censored.

Mastodon cannot be censored in the same way, thus no long-term enshittification. If you’re going to switch away from Twitter, give Mastodon a try. It uses the same tech/protocol as Lemmy, Piefed, Loops, Pixelfed, m/kbin, etc.