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> Does this line up with others’ experience? Not really, no. What did you install that slowed things down? > If yes, what actually works long-term? Plain ord

> Does this line up with others’ experience? Not really, no. What did you install that slowed things down? > If yes, what actually works long-term? Plain ordinary Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, running on an ancient Thinkpad T430 with a whopping 8GB of RAM and an SSD (which is failing, but that's not Linux's fault, it's been on its way out for about a year and I should probably stop compiling Haiku nightlies on it). Can you give an example of which desktop apps are "dragging in daemons"?

rvnx 10mo ago
Edited: My bad, I misread, started ranting about Gimp, how terrible this software was
- stryan 10mo ago
  GIMP is definitely not a daemon; I don't think it even has a run in the background mode. Maybe something with snaps?
  - rvnx 10mo ago
    No no, just misread, my fault, sorry. Mixed "dragging up demons" and then it reminded me of my traumas with GIMP, PulseAudio, CUDA, etc
    - stryan 10mo ago
      Ah, fair and understandable :)
- neoCrimeLabs 10mo ago
  Gimp is not typically used as background process. It's primary use is as an interactive tool with a UI, therefore it's not typically a daemon. [1] [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(computing) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(computing)
  - rvnx 10mo ago
    Thank you for the kind and actually helpful answer, especially in the face of a rant. I will pay more attention next time.
- ErroneousBosh 10mo ago
  It's not the greatest, for sure, but it's a complex tool for a complex task. If you think Gimp is terrible you'll hate something like DaVinci Resolve.