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i still make a swap partition (inside the encrypted volume group). if it's used, great--if not, no big deal, as ssd should keep some empty bits anyway.

i'm not even recommending 8gb laptops to most users anymore.. especially not ones with soldered ram that are stuck with only that.

it won't. ubuntu's announcement pertains to the extra demands of gnome, their flagship release, and it's default configuration.

mint doesn't ship a gnome spin, and cinnamon, mate and xfce are lighter-weight.. and mint is not dependent upon snaps, nor is it even configured oob with snap support enabled.

latest Gnome desktop, modern web browsers, and typical multitasking workflows

so use a lighter-weight de (xfce, lxqt, budgie), and don't go crazy with brower tabs or open applications, and you'll be ok.. like you're probably already doing now if you've got a 'marginal' pc.

that's probably per 'household' not 'per line' or 'per person'.

i've still got an 'emachines' here. granted, nothing inside is original anymore, except the optical with the curved silver bezel. has an am3 board in it now (originally a barton core on nvidia chipset). i keep it around because it has ide ports.. and yes, i do use those. had to dig it out twice in the last month.

that's a different thing. chromium edge has always had the 'load at startup' option (enabled by default, of course).. to make 'loading' it when you do run it, 'faster'.

this new innovation will launch the actual browser window, too.

I only had 360kbit/s for a while

they still sell dsl that slow here.. and of course the telephone company charges those people even more than they do in town for 20-60mbit dsl or 100-1000mbit fiber.

there's a few projects for running windows in a container.. winboat and winapps are a couple that come to mind. dunno if they're ready for 'prime time' yet. interesting concept, though.

made me look over to the office door to see if it was the same as the one i've had up here for over twenty-five years..

risen 35% since 2019

so.. since covid, then. how much of this 'billions in avoidable losses' were just left on people's doorsteps?

lemme guess... you can't rollback or reset and load the original oob firmware, either.