Well I dont have swap XD I should really make one

In my experience that is not really true. If you use Flatpaks (for recent versions and sandboxing), a browser with many tabs, unoptimised RAM eating electron apps like Signal Desktop, and then have a couple of things like Syncthing and some programs to share Linux ISOs running in the background, stuff gets tight quickly.

I would then also play a video in MPV and maybe encode one with ffmpeg, then oomd comes and kills apps, after my system was frozen for multiple minutes.

I used 20GB (4+16) for a while without issues. Just get another 16GB, if you can afford it XD

And yes agree, 16GB is kinda needed for modern Linux systems and normal to complex software workloads

Also sometimes websites have a fallback for systems with weaker DRM

Random but informative side tangent

Usb-c really sucks for anything but data and small devices

Cool and all but stop the rebooting hate

1. I just installed some random drivers, I guess without rebooting. Window is intransparent af, but I think so.
2. Reboots are very important and should be done with updates. Atomic systems make sense!

Probably some data hoarders scraping that shit

KDE Rocks

Go install it on old laptops, let people see and donate

Computertruhe could be happy about well working laptops! Dont hoard ;) you can try distros with external SSDs

There is Kali with GNOME?? XFCE is simply really bad, but it works well with their menu and custom widgets.

I dont think GNOME makes any sense tbh, KDE would make sense, heavily debloated.

Kali is a tool, not a daily driver. It has actively reduced security and open holes everywhere, so that you can hack things easier

GNOME is a noob desktop (or used by people that do everything in the terminal), so I dont see any connection here

If you use the dolphin file manager, that might create a .directory file in every visited folder. But that is just annoying and contains some metadata, nothing bad

An alternative to PuTTY too I guess

Very nice, GUIs are always appreciated as they make stuff easier by showing you what to do and needing to type less

Use open source software that doesnt try to spy on you

There is no reason why these files should contain PII, but on Windows and with proprietary software you never know

TIL that the font rendering inside the kernel is actually pixels. Not sure what your comment wanted to say.

Guys you have to see, it is amazing how much deep tech stuff you know, but dont forget you are a crazy niche within a niche and be nice to non-systems programmers XD

The Debian user who lets GRUB handle decryption AND updates (somehow, Debian is weird)

Good to hear that the kernel fonts are very basic. I guess that makes sense? I find it a bit odd, is the kernel ever the only thing interacting with hardware, with no chance to let a userspace program run that?

Also excited what RedoxOS creates

I just hope they get some industry funding soon. So many companies use embedded Linux but could really use a microkernel architecture.

Google with WearOS, Chromecast, Home and whatever weird little appliences they make.

A small kernel, dedicated drivers for hardware (that could probably be ported from Linux) and small programs

Yes, the kernel doing hardware things and another parts doing rendering for example, interacting with the kernel.

Text mode isnt just the kernel… the first thing that starts after the kernel is the init system.

Boot means initramfs plus kernel. Any other part could do that, doesnt need to run in kernelspace. I dont think the initramfs runs in kernel mode either.

Linux is a big huge thing that is all very highly privileged. It works, very well, but it is kind of a security mess.