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I think it's just perfect: the zero-bloat of elementary OS allows me to get my multitasking work done flawlessly, keeping firefox+sublime+atom+a-lot-of-terminal

by ff_ 12y ago

I think it's just perfect: the zero-bloat of elementary OS allows me to get my multitasking work done flawlessly, keeping firefox+sublime+atom+a-lot-of-terminals open without a glitch. Also the dual core Celeron is fast in compiling things for elementary dev (of course just don't think to run Gentoo on it), while moderates the desire to play games. About the 2GB RAM: as devs we are used to systems with 8/16 GB today; if you can accept that even RAM is a finite thing so it isn't an issue. Anyway I try to preserve my SSD, so I keep my ~/Downloads folder in RAM, and at first I disabled the swap volume: the system just freezed too often. So I re-enabled the swap, but I reduced the swappiness and I plan to move it on an SD card.

DanBC 12y ago
> Anyway I try to preserve my SSD You really don't need to do that anymore.
- ff_ 12y ago
  Why? Any writing cycle consumes it. And trust me, the Downloads folder in RAM is one of the best thing you can do to reduce the bloating of files in a system: you learn to copy away the things you really need, and leave the others there; at the next reboot they'll be vanished.