i still make a swap partition (inside the encrypted volume group). if it’s used, great–if not, no big deal, as ssd should keep some empty bits anyway.

i’m not even recommending 8gb laptops to most users anymore… especially not ones with soldered ram that are stuck with only that.

it won’t. ubuntu’s announcement pertains to the extra demands of gnome, their flagship release, and it’s default configuration.

mint doesn’t ship a gnome spin, and cinnamon, mate and xfce are lighter-weight… and mint is not dependent upon snaps, nor is it even configured oob with snap support enabled.

latest Gnome desktop, modern web browsers, and typical multitasking workflows

so use a lighter-weight de (xfce, lxqt, budgie), and don’t go crazy with brower tabs or open applications, and you’ll be ok… like you’re probably already doing now if you’ve got a ‘marginal’ pc.

that’s probably per ‘household’ not ‘per line’ or ‘per person’.

i’ve still got an ‘emachines’ here. granted, nothing inside is original anymore, except the optical with the curved silver bezel. has an am3 board in it now (originally a barton core on nvidia chipset). i keep it around because it has ide ports… and yes, i do use those. had to dig it out twice in the last month.

that’s a different thing. chromium edge has always had the ‘load at startup’ option (enabled by default, of course)… to make ‘loading’ it when you do run it, ‘faster’.

this new innovation will launch the actual browser window, too.

there’s a few projects for running windows in a container… winboat and winapps are a couple that come to mind. dunno if they’re ready for ‘prime time’ yet. interesting concept, though.

You ate them already. Sorry.

yup. several packages worth. no wonder they were closing them out at something like $2.00 a bag awhile back… they knew

my first install of debian was before it had names. my most recent was last tuesday. i’ve strayed for short stints, but debian is where it’s at. i do have a couple ‘others’ but they are special setups for specific things.

if you like the deb-based system but want to get away from canonical, trixie is ready to rescue you.

that’s where we take a lot of our junk, too… but we also buy from there when we can, instead of amazon.

western digital was the parent, they bought sandisk in 2016.

last year they spun-off the flash storage business back into a new entity (also) named sandisk, leaving western digital (‘wd’) with only the traditional hdd business.

the spin-off also included wd’s previous sd card line as well as their popular computer ssd products (which are being re-branded by the ‘new’ company).

hope you have your motherboard sourced already. lga1200 mini-itx gonna be a tough one to find reasonably priced, otherwise.

manjaro is arch-based, with different repositories than ubuntu or debian-based distributions. what it offers via the DE’s software ‘manager’ will likely be a bit different.

i use aptitude whenever i want to take a closer look at recommends and suggested packages in a .deb-based system. it’s been my preferred package manager since it was originally released back around woody (deb 3.0)

for games or a mix of games and applications, i would also consider using proton or similar instead of messing around with wine directly on its own.

i use bottles myself, because i just have a few smaller windows applications to set up and it works well-enough for those.

oil companies and gas stations already drooling over the thought of an extra ~ 20c a gallon pure profit.

prepaid netflix card, ftw. all they have ever asked for is an email to set up the account if you don’t already have one, and a postal code for sales tax determination (doesn’t have to be yours, just same country. *wink* *wink*). no name, no phone number, no billing address…

leftovers. breakfast taco, fish sandwich, reheated french fries from friday’s lunch, maybe part of a burrito.

Flash is slow to write to. Even ‘USB3’ ones can get bogged down on long writes or copying lots of little files.

I am old enough to have had a class in high school. On a normal keyboard, I can still hit 100 wpm with no errors. On a phone (which I don’t use often), though, it’s poke-poke-poke.