My arch linux with KDE only uses 500Mb ram after boot and I have a handfull of apps in the autostart. So I would guess with some explicitly lighter desktop environment you can be well below 100Mb

If you have a chance to add an ssd or nvme you could allocate a decently sized swap partition and let the OS handle the rest.

Maybe you won't be able to watch full HD youtube in big fat chrome browser, but otherwise it should work just fine I think.

I had a remarkable 2 for a year and was very dissatisfied with how hard it was to modify or run custom scripts or third party gui apps on it. Then came the subscription stuff and I ditched it.

Bought pinenote and even though I'm no linux developer, I've set it up and it works very well. Been using it for 3+ years now.

The build feels cheaper compared to remarkable, but the hardware spec is much better. And the best part is I can just run syncthing or kdeconnect or any linux desktop app on it and it's great.

They don't need to.

It's my wish to read a blog that discusses the nuances, instead of onesided bla.

Yeah thats the point I was trying to make.

Why is it talked about so onesidedly when it is actually multi-facetted? The blog to me reads like: "there are legal reasons against AI and there are fanatic reasons against AI, so we yive you the option to disable it (but actually it's totally great as we all know and agree)."

I wish they'd addressed it in a more nuanced way or not at all. Just saying "It is now a config" would have been enough, but they went out of their way to point out only the subset of the arguments that can be easily dismissed.

Guess they have a product to sell that rides on the succsess of AI coding.

https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study

Nobody ever adresses that using AI might actually be less efficient (while feeling more productive to the users)

The original ‘28 Days Later’ is less widely available due to licensing issues, so many have turned to pirate sites instead.

Piracy is a service issue.

The one I installed, obviously.

a long runway that allows us to become profitable when needed

Switch to self-hosting headscale when they enshittify in an attempt to become profitable, duh

but librewolf is king

Aaah finally, malware for Linux, truly the year of the Linux Desktop!

Unintuitive.

I heard of photoshop when I was 13 and I installed a pirated version, just started clicking around and I always found what I wanted in a minute.

10 Years later, I switch 100% to Linux, I have to do some light design work, I open gimp - I CLICK AROUND FOR HALF AN HOUR FOR SOMETHING SIMPLE - can't find it to save my life. Give up and google it, it gives me a reply like yours "just go to a completely unrelated menu to conjure a hack out of your ass that barely resembles what you originally intended to do".

Fuck that UX man. I am so glad pirated photoshop works well in wine nowadays and I have a VM with a legit Adobe suite if I ever need to actually whip up my license for some reason (fuck adobe as well btw.)

I pray that one day there is a real competitor that works natively on Linux. I pay, take my hard earned money every month, whatever it takes, just make it intuitive and reach near feature parity with PS.

If anybody is still reading, sorry for venting, the GIMPs always trigger me, have a nice day.

Try the Freetube or Grayjay client, they work for me with VPN.