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   Dushman (dushman@hollow.raccoon.quest)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 07:41:12 JST Dushman

   • twinspin

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   I mean a lot of open source software just has practical benefits. E.g Linux and the BSDs are much lighter than Windows and run great on old hardware.

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     Insane Eagle Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 07:41:10 JST Insane Eagle Sun

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     @dushman @twinspin6 it's kind of oversold these days, Linux is now majorly bloated over Windows XP. The world has gone insane :insane_eagle: even mainstream Linux distros want 1-2GB of RAM and 8GB of disk space. Alpine or Puppy get you a little closer to that but still not comparable.
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     Insane Eagle Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 07:46:13 JST Insane Eagle Sun

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     @dushman @twinspin6 what desktop are you running to do that
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     Dushman (dushman@hollow.raccoon.quest)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 07:46:15 JST Dushman

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     • Insane Eagle Sun

     @sun@shitposter.world @twinspin6@outerheaven.club Linux is now majorly bloatedI mean you can easily do a setup that uses less than 100mb of RAM with a GUI on a distro like Alpine

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     Insane Eagle Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 07:46:41 JST Insane Eagle Sun

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     @dushman @twinspin6 I've got a PowerPC OpenBSD box right next to me at work
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     Dushman (dushman@hollow.raccoon.quest)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 07:46:44 JST Dushman

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     @sun@shitposter.world @twinspin6@outerheaven.club
     Also BSDs are lighter than Linux, you can use those. OpenBSD runs super fast on my thinkpad.

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     Dushman (dushman@hollow.raccoon.quest)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 07:46:50 JST Dushman

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     • Insane Eagle Sun

     @sun@shitposter.world @twinspin6@outerheaven.club
     Totally doable with Openbox

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     Insane Eagle Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 07:49:21 JST Insane Eagle Sun

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     @dushman @twinspin6 I've done it with Puppy Linux, ran comfortably on a mini Thinkpad with 512MB of RAM
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     Insane Eagle Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 07:50:48 JST Insane Eagle Sun

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     @cohle @dushman @twinspin6 OpenBSD isn't as good at SMP as Linux and it has a fork of X11 that doesn't support as much hardware so it might be running in VESA mode which is noticeably slower.
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     kochlé (cohle@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 07:50:49 JST kochlé

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     @dushman @sun @twinspin6
     >OpenBSD runs super fast on my thinkpad.
     
     What kind of thinkpad? I've tried it on an x230 and it ran significantly slower than linux which I assumed was due to the security features.
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     Insane Eagle Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 07:52:13 JST Insane Eagle Sun

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     @dushman @twinspin6 I'd totally do it if I still had a netbook. I use Alpine in a few of my containers, like for my email server and for my gitea server
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     Dushman (dushman@hollow.raccoon.quest)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 07:52:15 JST Dushman

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     @sun@shitposter.world @twinspin6@outerheaven.club
     You could get Alpine with Openbox to use even less RAM if you run your own kernel with only the things you need

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     Pleroma-tan (kirby@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 07:52:16 JST Pleroma-tan

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     • Insane Eagle Sun
     @dushman @sun @twinspin6 Did you tweak it for performance options? Normally it's slower than on Linux by a bit of a noticeable margin. Albeit mostly minor
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     Dushman (dushman@hollow.raccoon.quest)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 07:52:51 JST Dushman

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     @sun@shitposter.world @cohle@shitposter.world @twinspin6@outerheaven.club
     On yeah possibly graphics driver fuckery. One I got has Intel integrated graphics which just work on OpenBSD.

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     Insane Eagle Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 07:54:45 JST Insane Eagle Sun

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     @dushman @twinspin6 @cohle openbsd also forked it to make it privilege-separated which has an impact on performance although I couldn't tell you to what extent. when I run OpenBSD I don't have a GUI