The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> Mike Easter wrote:
>>
>> Lighter weight distro/s such as Raspian and others should continue to
>> get the most attention from ARM devices.
>
> It's not the distro that is lightweight: it is simply the lack of CPU
> sucking javascript in a web browser.
>

Well, I would say that some distro/s and DEs and browsers focus more on
being modest in their resource consumption than others.

Ubuntu is 'based on' Debian, but it has its own repo/s; and Ub
'generally' uses more resources than Debian.

Historically, KDE has been considered a heavier DE, but recent versions
have shown KDE to be /much/ more modest in resource use than Gnome,
which doesn't seem to care a fig about how efficient it isn't.  A
typical Gnome distro might use nearly twice as much resources live to
the desktop than a typical KDE.

When someone assembles a distro such as Raspbian, they make choices in
which base, Debian, which DE/WM LXDE/OpenBox and which mail/news agent
Claws; whereas other distro dev/s make much heavier choices.  The choice
of Chromium for the default Raspbian browser was a choice leaning toward
functionality rather than low resources.

> Or X-windows.
>
> Ditch a GUI and you can run on a z80.

Well, personally I'm more of a GUI person.  My computing days started w/
an Atari TOS GUI, so I didn't 'grow up' using a command line.  Nowadays
I DO use command lines when they do the job I want done more efficiently.

The Raspbian choices for my RPi3B do just fine, resource-wise.  If I
were a 4G RPi4, the resource management would be different; but I would
likely use an XFCE Debian.  I'm not sure about the Claws vs Thunderbird
issue; tho' Tb is VERY bloated, it has some features for news I like
that Claws doesn't.


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Mike Easter

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