If this is in the wrong community let me know, but I have been away from linux for a little while now, and I have decided to come back to it. I am trying to figure out what Distro and Desktop environment I should use.
I used to use Ubuntu and, Ubuntu based Distributions, though for various reasons I had bad experiences with the ones based down stream of Ubuntu, I have also heard that Ubuntu is no longer nearly as good as they where before. As for desktop Experences, I never really liked Gnome. That being said from what I can tell there has been quite a bit that has changed sense I left, and any recommendations would be much appreciated.
Do you run Alpine on bare metal or in a VM?
its a hand-me-down laptop i got from someone like ten years ago
Do you use it for anything graphical, or just for the terminal?
xorg runs on it fine enough on its own. the laptop struggles with anything more intensive tho, like ff or even just running a gba emulator. can’t play anything past a gba game. use the terminal for as much as i can (urxvt ftw!)
(ff?) I wonder how much of that is due to missing drivers (etc.) for Alpine and how much is just the hardware being old
modern browsers are super resource intensive, they just got so bloated, and do so much. just dont have enough ram or cpu clock speed to do better. there’s no driver issues with alpine, drivers are a standard outside of any os thats really simple to bring in. the laptop is from, like, 2007 (?), it was a windows vista oem laptop
They really are incredibly bloated. Even the less popular graphical ones still have to use a massive browser engine like WebKit to support modern websites
(also, just realized that “ff” meant Firefox)