It updates system stuff. In particular the database of installed and
available packages. Imagine what sorts of things become possible if anyone on
the system can make changes to that.
That's true, you are not applying any change to your system by downloading
the source code.
No need for the sudo.
RAM usage is only one criteria. There's also what the DE requires of the CPU
while idling, the graphics chips etc. It's precisely because the apps people
use these days have such high resource demands (including those delivered via
browser), that it's important for the DE to deliver what the
In another thread, Mason said:
> "Trisquel 8 should be using systemd, not upstart."
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/dual-monitors
I wonder if this could be the issue with you Intel D865GLC motherboard?
> "XFCE should be the next mini I think."
XFCE may have been a lightweight DE once, but these days it has about the
same resource usage footprint as Mate. This article is from 2016 but more
recent tests have come to the same conclusion:
What a thorny issue George! It sounds like there is some incompatibility
between this piece of hardware and something that has been changed between
Trisquel 7 and 8. To confirm this, have you tried using a live USB made with
a different version of Trisquel (eg 7)? Also have you checked for a
