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    [–] sanderium@lemmy.zip 69 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    The fact that one can use a wm/compositor to make the desktop lighter is sick. I was using 350MB idle with Alpine + River, it is so damn snappy.

    I came to Linux for freedom and stayed for the performance.

    [–] StrixUralensis@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    Let me intoduce you to sub 100MB idle on OpenBSD with BSPWM (80~90MB)

    [–] sanderium@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    Damn, how low can one even go?

    [–] felbane@lemmy.world 43 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    640K of memory should be enough for anybody.

    [–] bigboitricky@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

    Linux system requirements:

    Electricity (optional)

    [–] the_beber@feddit.org 3 points 2 days ago

    4KB got us on the moon.

    [–] BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    I had a GUI on a computer with 256kB RAM on no hdd.

    [–] Aimeeloulm@feddit.uk 6 points 2 days ago

    I wrote a WIMP based gui on a ZX81 with 1Kb RAM, drop down menus used XORing, used keys to move cursor as no mouse back then, trouble was to make it useful for programs had to increase ram much higher like 16Kb, I used machine code and especially for low level graphics code, was fun to do 🀣

    [–] kwarg@mander.xyz 3 points 2 days ago

    Im currently on my dwm journey, and im loving it