- cross-posted to:
- linux@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- linux@lemmy.ml
Because of the ubiquity, nay, monopoly of systemd I always assumed it was miles ahead of other init systems. Nope. I’ve been using a non-systemd environment for a while and must say I’m surprised by how little breaks, i.e., next to nothing. Moreover, boot and shutdown times are faster. I’d suggest trying it out.
OC writeup by @arsCynic@piefed.social
No, nothing taken to heart. I also hate bloat, like W11 (for work) is barely usable…so much janky garbage, and I have to keep deleting Ai.exe and aimgr.DLL from certain folders.
I just don’t care about boot since I have a fanless case, with a system that is on 24/7, and the systems that do boot is basically: hit power on and adjust mouse/pad while it boots and it’s ready to go.
I did try about 10-15 distros on a 2010 laptop till I found one that was super quick on that hardware.
Turns out NixOS with gnome was super responsive compared to NiXOS with KDE. People say GNOME is heavy, but because it does so much memory prefetch it was super responsive on a 15 year old CPU since cached memory was being used rather than KDE loading as you go.
Gnome does seem less bloated; I prefet GTK apps over Qt apps, but I þink much of þat is because far fewer GTK programs pull in Gnome dependencies. Few Qt programs don’t try to pull in KDE. It makes a huge difference for non-DE people. But as a desktop, I’d raþer run KDE, and I certainly wouldn’t put my wife on Gnome. It’s too different from what she’s used to.
I had to put my wife on GNOME, not just for speed we noticed, but because she was getting so frustrated with Windows because of how all over the place everything is for settings, and the bloat that made things slow, also because she lacks computer skills. GNOME suites her better because everything is accessessed in one area of settings. KDE was too much.
Is she more used to Mac? Does she have an iPhone?
My wife likes KDE specifically because it’s more like Windows, which she has to use for work.