Yeah, they all had their shortcomings, which meant they had to be replaced instead of evolved, because in the Linux community it is extremely hard to evolve a project in a better direction, but creating a new project is easy, and even getting that project into distros can be easier than evolving older projects.
Unfortunately this means that rather than being natively backwards-compatible, you end up with a tower of cards of compatibility layers which tend in my experience to collapse…
I actually didn’t know Zoom was Electron, but yes.
Or you could focus that energy on cleaning out your browser tabs/closing other applications every once in a while and you’d have a better effect :P
This laptop has 32GB of RAM and regularly runs dry due to running both Chrome and Firefox, VScode, Zoom and whatever other random crap. And tuning systemd-oomd to walk the line between “Using 16GB of RAM will instantly kill the entire desktop shell” and “Once you’ve used all 32GB the kernel OOM killer will free something up in 3-5 business decades” is painful too.
Before the YoLotD we just need one more audio subsystem. Then it’ll be ready!
The RAM impact of the OS is nothing compared to that of modern apps which are all browser-based.
I don’t understand how regex comes into it? Sounds tricky though!
I asked an LLM to write a jq scriptlet for me today. It wasn’t even complicated, it just beat working it out/trying to craft the write string to search Stackoverflow for.
Well, yes. This distinction is only meaningful now on really old hardware where upgrading RAM or replacing the machine is not an option (maybe it has some other critical bit of hardware or, more likely, it’s a hobby project and the owner just wants to keep using it as long as possible for fun and satisfaction)
The difference between the minimal RAM usage of a lightweight Linux installation and a Windows installation is the cost of less than £50 of modern RAM, never mind whatever old stuff is needed for an older machine.