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  • My PC with 4GB of RAM and an HDD is barely holding with linux mint. Tbf Mint isn’t the problem, it only takes 32% of ram compared to the 60+% of a debloated windows 10. It’s the other apps. Running a browser along anything else and Linux mint starts to struggle, even the built-in apps like the file manager and the text editor feel like they’re gonna crash the computer at any moment because of the random freezing/ delays.

    My advice would be to try upgrading to 4GB and installing an SSD. Your old computer will likely only support SATA SSDs, which have a max speed of 500MB/s, but it’s far better than the 30MB/s at best that the HDD disks give.











  • Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoFediverse@lemmy.worldAnnouncement of Sublinks
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    8 months ago

    One of the most inportant features that lemmy lacks is the embedding of peertube/invidious/youtube videos . If you manage to incorporate this then what you’d have would be basically a huge improvement for the Fediverse. Imagine someone sharing a song/video he found on YouTube and instead of dealing with redirect and opening an entire other app you just click play. Heck, the user could add an “audio only” tag to their post to just show a music player widget.




  • There was an app that dealt with desktop entry and auto-update but it hasn’t bee updated since a few years already.

    no repo (= virus danger)

    Can be remedied with an official store/ being distrubuted by the devs themselves instead of random people. Appimage isn’t getting a tenth of the support flatpak is getting.

    no deduplication of libraries

    Might worth it if you have dozens of very heavy apps but it’s totally not the case if you only need a few simple programs.


  • Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoLinux@lemmy.mlFlatpak can look daunting...
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    10 months ago

    That’s why I think AppImage is the best. Despite needing to pack everything it needs it’s always far more lightweight than flatpak. I’d rather download a 50mb appimage than several gigabytes of an entire OS libraries and then the updates requiring roughly the same size. That and I have a removedty internet