rants and (hopefully) useful info
I recently upgraded from Debian Stretch 9.9 to Debian Buster 10.0 – using LXDE as my base GUI because it is light and fast. Right after that I experienced the first real problem I’ve had on Debian since I started with it! When clicking on any URL in almost all apps (eg. KeePass, CherryTree etc),…
On the topic of minimalist… I like a small footprint…and I stumbled upon some numbers and according to the “internet”… Plain Openbox only: 58 MB XFCE: 89 MB (with default configuration of Debian) LXDE (gtk+ 2 version): 78 MB (add 20 MB to openbox) On my “fully loaded” desktop station, including/running LibreOffice and a bunch…
For a while, I preferred ArchLinux as my personal Desktop Workstation. However, I found a few instances where I was not able to get certain apps to work reliably. I started looking into alternatives which would be equally light and configurable. This was where I decided against ubuntu – since it wanted to make all…