I really felt so empowered when I left macOS for FreeBSD with KDE and I still do. I found I really hate opinionated software because usually I don't have the same opinions :)

However I run it on a desktop NUC with wired everything. I don't use WiFi, Bluetooth or Suspending. I'm not sure if the more laptop-related usescases will be ok. For example I had to turn off my bluetooth controller because it hangs the boot process. I think this is just a peculiarity of my particular controller though.

Also I have one weird key repeat thing I still have to investigate :) But I think my Apple keyboard is just a bit funny.

This is exactly why I switched from Linux to Windows and never looked back.

The Windows UX these days is also horribly jankful in other ways, too.

I feel like Windows 2000 made a stronger case for "switching to Windows and never looking back" than Win7-11.

But yeah, 2000 was somehow the apogee.

Plasma is pretty nice nowadays but I sometimes miss the simpler times of KDE 3.5

I just realized that I probably used it or win2k3 daily for nearly 10 years.

You can even do DEP so that certain serial numbers marked as "yours" will autoenroll/provision on wipe, on a blank/fresh OS.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19750796/allocating-more...

But I like that about FreeBSD, it just says no when you try to allocate more memory than you have (including swap!)

Don’t get me wrong. Out of the Windows, Mac and Ubuntu machines I have, the Ubuntu one is still my favorite (especially since switching from 20.04 LTS to 20.10) but Fedora is doing things so much more along the lines of what I want.

It’s more cutting edge but still very stable and well tested. It doesn’t force snaps onto me. I’d much rather install flatpak software. And it has a cleaner Gnome interface. Even though I kind of like the Ubuntu sidebar dock, it’s not worth all the other awkward behaviors with Ubuntu trying to override Gnome (for example, the existence of the Ubuntu Software store really annoys me since it doesn’t support Flatpak and simply seems to run a lot worse than the Gnome software store that I also have installed).

Agree on all points as well - Vanilla GNOME > Unity, Flatpaks > Snaps. The Snap Store is just GNOME Software with some plugins/tweaks FWIW, this is changing (has changed?) soon though. I learned this by investigating a memory leak https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/issues/942

While this sounds great, not allocating storage for swap means either you'll have that space unallocated or you won't have any swap because your system is full.

Administrative overhead is simpler though, and sparse files don't have any performance overhead in later kernels (Citation needed, read somewhere on some wiki)

For everyday use I never even exceed 16GBs... Guess everyone has different needs, but there is no way it swaps over 32GB for normal applications, even taking into account overcommitting.

How on earth does idle RAM consumption matter to you when a GB of RAM is cheaper than a beer?

I'm not a Windows fan, I don't let Windows control any hardware other than a GPU on any of my systems but i do run it in a VM for gaming. I just don't see the problem, more RAM usage could even be better for performance. It's a useless metric.

If you are low on RAM and on Linux I really recommend getting zram, which will compress memory pages making swapping less needed.

I've been reading but never really figured out. Can ZSWAP or ZRAM write compressed to disk somehow too?

Thanks! :)

This doesn't really make any sense. The issues with the file chooser are known, what's missing are design and development resources to do a redesign. The main problem is actually that the human design effort is being put into the rest of the system and not here; losing trust because of this is somewhat of a self-sabotage that you probably want to avoid.

I have a vague memory of this being configurable a long time ago (maybe KDE 3), but this setting disappearing in later versions.

Is it possible to change this in later versions of KDE?

This is how the dialogs looked the last time I looked. Are you saying that it's changed?