I'm not gonna sugarcoat it, I'm using openSUSE right now and I have no reason to do so

>>107711139
Stow your urge to distrohop with the knowledge that distros are 99% the same.

>>107711139
B-but why?! You are insane

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>>107710984
I am only browser + image viewer + 3/4 terminals + emacs. Should I be worried because I have very less free ram? Also why does it use so much for "cached".
>t. only understand what ram is from it's definition; nothing more, nothing less

>>107711157
I will never understand distrohoppers. They make their life harder by hopping distros all the time. If they get the urge why not just run it on a VM for their weekly fix?

>>107711163
'Available' is the one that matters. 'Cached' is just RAM that isn't allocated to anything that the kernel is using for caching stuff to improve performance.
I'd say buy more RAM, but if you're still on an 8GB machine then it's probably prohibitively expensive to do so.

>>107711139
Didn't they get rid of yast? At that point OpenSUSE is the same as every other distro, which isn't a bad thing.

>>107711163
cached are things that were used and freed. Instead of wiping the ram, the kernel keeps it there in case you want to use it again. It's pretty good that way.

>>107711163
Available RAM = Cached RAM + Free RAM
Cached RAM is just RAM that holds data that you might wanna access later, for example, if you open a heavy app (like firefox) it will open slow the first time, but the next time you open the app it will be faster because it was cached to RAM.
If a program needs more memory it will clear some cache and use the now freed space.

tldr; you don't need to worry about it

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>>107711163
cutie numbers.
Damn you, firefox.

>>107711270
Stop hoarding tabs

>>107711303
that's easier said than done

>>107711220
>>107711250
>>107711229
>the kernel is using for caching stuff to improve performance.
>cached are things that were used and freed
>Available RAM = Cached RAM + Free RAM
>If a program needs more memory it will clear some cache and use the now freed space.
it makes more sense now and here I was really worried like wtf is going on, I thought Cached ram was different from what we normally refer to "cache". I will buy more RAM when the price decreases, most of the stuff except compiling works okay for me. Thanks!

>>107711270
lol, I just use Auto Tab Discard with only 3 tabs active at a time.

>>107711270
unsed ram is wasted ram or something

>>107711344
You could use zram or swap for memory intensive applications, look these up and learn about them if you want to squeeze more memory out of your system.

>>107711348
Majority of my tabs shouldn't be loaded either. But I have 1618 of them.

>>107711358
true

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>>107710984
any reason NOT to use veracrypt on linux?

>>107710984
Did you just find your old Linux shitbox from 2008 and took a screenshot kek?

>>107711396
because luks

>>107711381
wtf lol, highest i ever had was around ~120, at present it's 54
>>107711358
yeah

>>107711380
I use swap, will look into zram, thanks

>>107711607
the number just keeps growing. (send help)

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My distrohopping journey has begun. I will explore and build my next desktop experience piece by piece as I see fit. I will no longer allow myself to be burdened with useless programs, runtime dependencies, and files cluttering my system.

I will probably keep Lubuntu on my laptop. It serves. My desktop needs some cleanup.

>>107711689
>distrohopping journey
you have nothing better to do at the end of the year?

>>107711689
If you don't want to be burdened by useless programs, do an arch install. Add ufw, a browser, and whatever else you want. Select a DE. Done.

>>107711412
but vcrypt is easier and more convenient

>>107711718
Why would you need ufw if you are behind a NAT router?

>>107711718
Do you even need ufw in arch?

>>107711734
Extra layer of security
>>107711761
Gives me peace of mind

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>you can actually cd into your music folders and just "mpv *"
>all controls work
Hehe I am so minimal I barely exist.
I found out it's pretty fun to tinker with small terminal programs and see how small I can get in storage space and limited compute.
I can't yet escape having a huge browser like firefox for the shared bookmarks and passwords function, but anything else is free range. I see it as a natural progression in my linux usage. A kind of software purity that drew me in, in the first place.
Do you guys bother with minimalism in general? Do you think it's a trap? A refuge? A stupid tinkerer's obsession?

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Is there any reason to use "real containers" such as Docker instead of just

systemd-nspawn -D /path/to/some/linuxsystem

?

>>107711761
Nobody needs ufw anywhere.
>>107711941
So you just want to make your system unresponsive to pings and basically have all that "desktop ruleset" junk? There are plenty of NFtables examples out there.

>>107711702
>you have nothing better to do at the end of the year?
I've been sick all Christmas and my stationary computer is in shambles, literally.

Has hyprpaper stopped working for anyone here after updating arch recently?

>>107712015
everything stops working after updating arch such is the archlife

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>>107711978
Basically

>>107711948
That's great and all, but can you play video in TTY without having wayland or x11 installed using --gpu-context=drm ?
I've never tried that.