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I am curious about your Ubuntu setup. Any particular technical reason? Any especially thorny bits? Do you see improved performance or fewer background processes

I am curious about your Ubuntu setup. Any particular technical reason? Any especially thorny bits? Do you see improved performance or fewer background processes? I am well past the point of enduring this kind of OS pain, and will use the path well trodden by others. I have always assumed that distros layer on so many extensions, customizations, etc that Gnome or KDE would be alien if naively installed.

ryukoposting 2y ago
> Any particular technical reason? Fully de-GNOME'ing desktop Ubuntu is Sisyphean. It's easier to build up Ubuntu Server from a plain terminal. > Any especially thorny bits? Nvidia drivers. Just check that all apt packages with the word "nvidia" in them have the same version number. Otherwise Xorg and/or torch will go boom. > Gnome or KDE I'm using neither! I have no login manager. I type my username and password into a login shell, run "startx" and that starts i3. And yes, it is somewhat alien. GTK and Qt based applications will have no theme, so they all default to that black-on-gray circa Windows 95 look. > Do you see improved performance or fewer background processes? Yes and yes. With i3wm loaded, my desktop idles at about 100MB of RAM used. My desktop compares favorably to similarly-specced entries on openbenchmarking, especially in IPC-related tests.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 2y ago
  Wild. Well glad it works for you, but way too many headaches for when things go awry. I note that my Ubuntu derived system idles at multiple gigs of ram