MPV is a much lighter video player. Try that.

Punch cards. The “true” PC era.

“Stone” tablets? Luxury. Ours were dried mammoth dung.

Are you running Trinity or KDE?

Not sure why I get so much less unless it is that. Or are you saying you run Trinity 64 bit?

I agree that 32 bit is not often going to be 50% less in practice. Sometimes I think we should be running 64 bit kernels with 32 bit userland.

I found my people.

I have Linux on a 2009 and 2012 MacBook Pro and 2013 and 2017 MacBook Airs.

The 2009 is getting a bit sluggish but for regular stuff, they all work great. We even played a Steam game on the 2012 earlier today (not AAA obviously).

All Chimera Linux.

It is because it is 32 bit. You can run a 32 bit distro on your machine too if you really want.

You can get a full Trinity desktop on Q4OS in 130 MB of RAM (32 bit edition).

.NET runs fast on Linux

Hahahahahaha. Good one.

Who told you that?

I live in fear of distros like Debian shipping ancient drivers and having to listen to 3 more years of people saying Wayland does not work. Debian 13 may ship with NVIDIA 535 drivers.

GDM launches other environments too. I do not think it is about GNOME itself.

A big thing missing from Wayland are all the other X11 window managers (hundreds of them) and desktop environments (like XFCE and Cinnamon) that people may want to use.

Ok. So now both Apple and Microsoft are distributors of the Linux kernel. What a timeline.

I do not like being accused of attacking Manjaro but since you asked….

1. the project has had lots of governance and quality problems. Maybe those are all in the past. Maybe.

2. By design, Manjaro is not compatible with the Arch repos or the AUR. One of the biggest problems is that they hold their software back a few weeks. In theory this is for quality (not my experience). Regardless, many people have had problems, especially with the AUR. I am one. Others say they have not. Some even claim the rest of us have not either. Manajaro has “brought down” AUR itself (compared to a DDOS attack but really just quality again).

I used Manjaro for over 2 years and would never touch it again. And if what you want is an Arch based distro with an easy install, there is EOS. I have used EndeavousOS for I think maybe 5 years and I love it. Recently I have moved to Chimera Linux, which is not for everyone (it is awesome but I am not recommending it). It is not because of anything wrong with EOS.

EndeavourOS. The default desktop is KDE these days.

Easy to install.

Attractive desktops out of the box. KDE is the default. A few nice quality of life utilities.

It uses the Arch repos and kernel. The AUR (yay) is installed out-of-the-box. So, the biggest package selection in the Linux world. Always up-to-date. Updates fast.

Great community in the EOS forums. Some of the best Linux docs on the web in the Arch wiki. The Arch wiki is an amazing resource for learning.

Very stable. Breakages are rare, especially if you use an LTS kernel. The current LTS kernel is the same one that Debian 13 will release with “soon”. So, not exactly ancient.

Biggest “downside” is that there is no GUI software installer out-of-the-box.

If that is really a deal-breaker, just install one like pamac or octopi. “yay -S octopi” should do it.

Or install a menu driven text based package manager like pacseek. “yay -S pacseek”

Or just take a few minutes to learn how to use pacman or yay at the command-line. You said you wanted to learn.

You can think of Docker and Podman as an almost zero overhead (CPU and RAM) way of running one distribution on another. So, you can run an application in Docker that expects to be running on a different distro from what you use (say Ubuntu Jenkins but actually running on Debian). The environment that the applications run in are called “containers”. Mostly they contain the filesystem layout and application libraries that the app expects.

Docker itself is designed to sandbox the application away from your host system. A related technology, Distrobox, uses the same containers but in a way that the applications know they are running on your system with full access to your display manager and home directory.

I run an Arch Distrobox on every distro that I use. This allows me full access to all the Arch repos and the AUR even on other distros ( eg. Alpine, Chinese Linux, or Debian).

Flatpak also uses containers and so you can consider Distrobox as a Flatpak alternative. Flatpak containers are not the same as those that Docker uses but they rely on the same underlying Linux kernel features to do what they do. In Flatpak, you are essentially running the Freedesktop distro on top of your host distro (so much like Distrobox with the guest distro chosen for you).

You sir, may be the highest quality person on the Internet.

We may disagree. One of us may be wrong. Or it may simply be two sides of the coin. Regardless, I respect your opinion and values and cannot begin to express how impressed I am with your response here. I hope someday to achieve the same level of maturity.

We cannot expect companies to be “good” but that is absolutely something we can strive for in ourselves.

I am not sure how you arrived at “none” from your second sentence. The second sentence is exactly my point.

Alternatively then, can I just use the Microsoft source code and claim that I got it from AI? That seems to be your point here.

The road continues on to Arch from there.

Debian is becoming more and more viable as a desktop OS in the era of Flatpak and Distrobox. Trixie looks like a really nice release.

I thought the whole point of this setting is not having to specify the features of the CPU. You can compile native versions now if you set things yourself.

Big O