I think maybe #Debian 12 with #XFCE is literally perfect for me. And that's without doing anything in terminals, only clicking around in GUI settings. I didn't even have to install any additional packages.
Möchtest du verschiedene Desktopumgebungen auf Linux ausprobieren? In diesem Video zeige ich dir, wie du ganz einfach und schnell verschiedene Desktopumgebungen installieren und testen kannst. So findest du heraus, welche für dich am besten geeignet ist!
Spent the day installing #Mint#XFce to an old Acer #laptop of my sister in law's brother (I've converted everyone to #Linux in the family). Acer's firmware was very buggy, so it took tricks to load grub.
Installed them a few apps, and they will be super happy with their new (old) laptop. Previously, #Windows 10 was dying on that laptop, it was that slow, as it was swapping furiously! Mint loaded in about 1 minute, which is good (considering the very slow hdd).
It looks like I might be a bit of a #GTK fan boy. Looking at my #linux devices that run a DE, all of them are GTK based (#Gnome, #Cinnamon, and #XFCE).
Oui, j’ai vu qu’on pouvait personnaliser le nom affiché par le menu session de #XFCE. Si ça peut m’éviter de devoir passer par GIMP pour caviarder mon prénom à chaque fois…
Amazing experience! 😎
The system uses roughly around 20 - 30 Watts under normal desktop usage - peaking at 60 when the load is high.
Not going back to the #Ryzen anytime soon... just don't need the power.
Besides: It is quiet and cool - like that a lot.
Running #Debian with #Xfce on it and also have two vm's that I run most of the time.
Also: There is a spare NVMe in there... room for more fun 😎
On #Debian 11, the whole system along with #XFce was taking 500 MB of RAM. On Debian 12, the system takes 850 MB of RAM. On Trixie/Sid-unstable, it takes 1.3 GB. I honestly don't know what they're shoving in it.
With #Cinnamon and #Gnome, it takes 1.6 GB on idle. Since when Cinnamon, a gnome2/gtk3 fork takes (or should take) as much RAM as Gnome4/gtk4? Something's amiss.
Cleaned up my #Xfce menu, surprised I hadn't added the settings apps to the settings manager since I last wiped. Also, will be forever confused as to why applications in 'settings' don't automatically get added to the settings manager. Found a few old packages I could remove, including most of #libreoffice as I only use Calc and Writer.
Quite enjoying Ubuntu Budgie. Seems to be a little lighter than stock Ubuntu and with fewer issues? I don't know. I did a full install instead of upgrading in place. Luckily the laptop doesn't hold a lot of files.
I have settled in nicely to Plasma for my work machine. The project has matured a LOT in the last couple of years, and I can't help but shake my imaginary rhetorical pom-poms at their success.
On my home machine, it's almost always tiling window managers. I just love the clean, pseudo sci-fi look and incredible efficiency.
So I found myself in a weird predicament. I had some older laptops that I converted to #Debian & #XFce with a bunch of added apps and games. I gave some to my family, and the rest I wanted to give them to kids for school. I asked around. Well, no one seems to want them. No one is using computers anymore in #Greece it seems, they only use #smartphones. They barely browse the web too (just some gov sites). They just use #tiktok and few apps, consoles for games. That's it.
Salut, j'aimerai bien afficher dans ma barre des tâches la température de mon pc. Je suis sous debian 12. J'ai déjà le visionneur de capteur installé mais j'aimerai l'avoir affiché quelque part en permanence.
Quelqu'un une idée #debian#linux#xfce
Le repouet aide votre PC à rester au frais
Daily driver is now a #OptiPlex 7060 Micro. 😉
In the end all I need is #Firefox and a good editor like #Vim - and of course my trusty #Debian :debian:
This system has also a NVMe inside which can be used for another OS of choice.. more on that later 😎
If I want to do some gaming I can fire up the #Ryzen system - but that is quite rare already.
So, saving energy and getting work done is a good deal 🙂