imagine KDE would actually run well as it doesn’t need all the bells it offers and is actually a well written performant DE.

RAM usages on a 8GB system, 4 hours after boot.

• plasmashell: 312 MB
• kwin_wayland: 165 MB
• akonadi_* summed: ~2 GB
• kded5: 130 MB
• kalendarac: 119 MB
• xdg-desktop-portal-kde: 107 MB
• kwallet5: 103 MB (unused)
• kaccess: 103 MB
• kiod5: 103 MB
• polkit-kde-auth: 101 MB
• X, Xwayland combined: 202 MB
• org_kde_powerdevil: 48,5 MB
• kactivitymanagerd: 40 MB
• startplasma-wayland: 39 MB

There’s also various other things too. Now obviously, looking at the total used counter, these cannot be just summed up, there must be some overlap through shared libraries and such, because if I close my web browser and all I have open is Konsole, total memory usage drops to 2,35GB. 3rd party programs, like opensnitch and syncthing, only contribute 400 MB (opensnitch is surprisingly fat, but it’s UI is not efficient with the CPU either), so the system itself needs around 1,9 GB, but that’s a lot when all you have is 2 GB RAM.
Then, my system uses an additional 2 GB for cache purposes. Such an old system will probably have an older, much slower storage (unless upgraded, fortunately that’s often easy), and won’t have nearly any capacity to keep a filesystem cache.

I’m only using a single widget on the desktop to periodically run a command and display it’s results. Other than that, the taskbar panel has the default widgets.

I think you can disable most of the toolbars in the main screen if it helps.
You can do that in the “Docks” menu in the topmost bar, unticking any you don’t need.
I think you can freely hide these, maybe more: stats, audio mixer, scene transitions, sources (after you have set up your capture source), scenes.

Then if it’s still a lot, you can untick these in the View menu besides Docks: scene/source list buttons, source toolbar, status bar.

At that point you only have the controls dock, the preview, and the thin top bar.
Don’t forget to reenable the sources dock and the audio mixer if you want to change those settings, though.

What do you mean by bloated? Isn’t it 2 clicks at most after the one time next-next-finish setup?

Thanks! :)

Yeah you’re right, I even needed to use my distro’s live system (which is also the installer) a few times to reinstall grub after something overrode it, so that too.

What’s your use case for the gparted system, though? Systemrescue also contains gparted, and it also has a better quality environment (easier to switch keyboard layout, I think correct display resolution from the start, fewer questions on startup)

I can’t tell you what I would do for a remindme bot now to know to check back later

Systemrescue is a pretty fine live system for such tasks. It’s mostly centered around data recovery, and recovering a removeded up distro by having firefox, keepass and such. It starts in a text terminal, but it only takes a startx to start a graphical environment.

It’s certainly possible, if not else than with the use of FUSE. But I did not see such a project yet that can do this.

Definitely ddrescue. Unlike traditional dd, it can deal with failing drives, it’s operation is resumable, and has some other features that’s helpful. I would recommend using it even if your drive is fine.
What it produces is a byte for byte copy just like dd.

If you want to invent and maintain your wheel then go ahead… but I think we have better things to do than maintaining half the code of an operating system.

Udisksctl has a variety of relevant features, and it works good, kind of.

Is this a joke?

Obviously, 8 wide tabs are too much. That’s like defining Pi as 5.

Hmm, with a similar technique one could even create git command aliases for running git with specific ssh private keys

Except if you are locked out of system management and you just can’t switch. Or only at the price of hardware incompatibilities and consumer apps refusing to work when they see you after practicing your ownership of the device.
See Android.

The metadata seems to be pretty close to full. I’m not using BTRFS, but I’ve read earlier that this is solved with rebalancing, or how is that called. Btrfs’s management command is able to do it.

But possibly the metadata is unreasonably large, so maybe the solution is not rebalancing.

A few hours later I have read it too, possibly the same website. Still weird.

The reason I don’t like selinux is that it’s quite complicated.
I don’t like flatpak, prefer wayland, but also apparmor, even if I haven’t used that much yet.

As I see on debian and derivatives apparmor is the way, but not sure if that’s preinstalled.

The extractor probably takes the timestamps from inside the archive

They don’t shouldn’t need to see the screen just to position themselves on it. Or do you mean the screen size?

See my answer here: https://beehaw.org/comment/3387311