I have a very similar problem activity monitor says 13.6gb of ram used while btop says around 6.9gb.

(activity monitor top)

(btop bottom)

Probably nothing. I’m currently in the process of starting to distrohop a lot. I want to try out lots of distros, for fun and in order to recommend distros to other people. I will probably eventually settle on arch or nixos though, the customization seams really awesome.

I half the point of package managers was so you could easily uninstall them. Do package managers usually not fully uninstall?

Ok, thank you!

There will still be just as many free as in beer linux apps and they will be just as easy to find since you can just turn on the filter for “free and open source” when your searching for an app in flathub or whatever repo and package manager you use, sure more proprietary apps may be developed but the open source ones will be here to stay and could get much more funding from donations if more people joined.

And I don’t think it’s about hardware development as that is already here, there are plenty options for hardware on linux and that is not a limiting factor.

What is a limiting factor (at least for me) is software support and it is the reason I still dual boot windows and linux. I need adobe for my work I know, I hate it too I wish I could use davinci resolve and other alternatives instead but I can’t. I am also a gamer and I play with my friends who run windows, I want to have fun with my friends and if a game doesn’t run on linux I still want to play the game even if it means using windows.

If the market share of linux increases then for profit developers will start optimizing applications for it since it will become a major target demographic.

In terms of viruses and regulation they are both fare points which I agree with you on, but I don’t think they outweigh the benifets of having higher user adoption (for me at least)

I would be interested to know, is software support is ever a boundary to you?

Wait what? I thought the EU could be my future salvation! If the EU regulations are too harsh, and the US regulations are so slack that billion dollar monopolistic tech companies can thrive, Australia is just America lite but with mining instead of big tech, and developing nations are still developing and don’t have good amenities and the communist nations are largely dictators where do I go?

I first started Ubuntu as a minecraft server, then last year I actually started using it as a desktop.

The year of the Linux desktop: any year now for the past 10 years.

I’m waiting for the day someone who isn’t a nerd and regularly uses Linux.

That’s a real showcase of how linux actually cares about its users over other companies. It’s great to see that hardware I buy now will be supported on linux for a long long time into the future.