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Re:Gitlab 500 error by btrettel on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @01:36PM (#17295685)
The Jevons paradox applies to computers [1]. Additional computational power is mostly wasted. That's why I use Xfce. The additional bloat doesn't accomplish anything in my view. (And I might switch to something lighter in the future.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

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Re:Gitlab 500 error by nextos on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @01:42PM (#17295767)
Regarding Xfce and lightweight desktops, no desktop environment, a few services, X, a tiling window manager (e.g. stumpwm or i3) and a terminal can easily fit into less than 256 MB of RAM. My Arch and Nix setups are in fact close to 128.

When casual users insist on needing 16 GB of RAM to surf the web, watch videos and chat it makes me cringe.

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Re:Gitlab 500 error by greggyb on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @01:50PM (#17295874)
Regarding RAM consumption. I'm on a Windows box right now. The Windows Desktop Manager takes ~75MB RAM, but my Firefox process (with most tabs suspended) takes >2GB RAM. I run into the same on my Linux and BSD machines at home.

I run i3 and the XFCE settings daemon for convenience. Sure, I could optimize more, but it's really not the area where I'll see a lot of benefit. My best optimization for standard users is an automatic tab suspender.

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