Also, disable animations and other bling in your desktop. and apps to (many have options to disable stuff like that). They might be pretty and entertaining the first few times you see them, but they just waste resources (like RAM and CPU power) doing stuff that isn't necessary.
If you're using KDE or Gnome, it may also be worth considering switching to a lightweight desktop like xfce or lxde. This doesn't have to mean switching distros - any mainstream (i.e. non-tiny) distro can run any desktop environment, even if the default/recommended DE is one of the heavy-weights. You can even have multiple DEs installed so you can choose between them whenever you login. Finally, if you're using a lot of snap packaged software, you may want to look for .deb packages instead. snaps & flatpaks & the like are convenient but they do use more RAM (because they have their own bundled copies of the libraries they need which run in their own namespace rather than using the same shared libs as the rest of the system - so if you're running multiple snap apps, you end up having multiple copies of various libs in RAM at the same time) e.g. steam is available as both a .deb package AND as a snap for ubuntu. the .deb package will use less RAM. Ubuntu have been heavily pushing snap packages for the last few years - installing them in preference to any .deb packages that may also be available. I recommend closely examining the programs you use and checking whether you can save some RAM by using .deb packages for some of them instead. You may have to search for third party .deb PPAs for some packages. craig _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
