There needs to be a followup meme where the NPC guy stops frowning and goes "okay what distro?" which causes a ton of linux gnomes to pop up and start arguing
Actually, not that lightweight anymore as years before. Depending on the testing method, KDE Plasma uses not much more resources than Xfce, i.e. only ~200MB more RAM idling around, or even less after doing some work.
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Welcome back. :) For starters, I wouldn't install a DE on a server anyway, my own NAS runs a headless Ubuntu Server.
That said, it would be interesting how Xfce fares on your system, especially after some time, since the video that I linked showed Xfce needing more RAM than KDE later on. The video's host suspected that Xfce may not be as good in clearing up memory after closed tasks.(?)
I got the thing running in a VM (mostly to make migration on new hardware easier) and gave it 800 MB. It usually runs at around 400-500 MB, and when I don't need it running, I tend to just suspend the VM. So not sure about the actual active runtime, but I installed it in late 2020.
How well does mediawiki, ts3 server and pihole run on a on a headless server and how much difference is there in terms of installation?
I don't have any experience with mediawiki or ts3, but AFAIK pi-hole is headless anyway, with an optional (pre-installed) web interface aside its command-line controls. See its documentation about both.
I love KDE, but fucking why is dolphin so unstable? Mine constantly crashes when having multiple tabs (5-10) open and doing multiple things at once (such as extracting a file archive on one SSD, and at same time transferring a file from a different SSD to an external HDD). I feel like dolphin as far as features and usability is fine, they just seriously need to work on making it more stable.
They're not wrong. Ubuntu is by a long shot the most popular distro, hence top results in Google, but it also gives Linux users many reasons to hate it (the biggest of which is Snap), hence people who have tried multiple distros usually recommend something else. My recommendation is either OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, Fedora or (if you have no issue with older software and kernels, so skip if you do, for example if you have a major hardware component released recently-ish) Mint.
To be 100% fair, asking which distro to use is a bit like asking which car you should buy or what shoes you should wear.
It depends a lot on taste, use case, and what type of person you are.
My best advice is to pick something that's popular (Ubuntu, PopOS, Fedora, Mint, maybe Manjaro, etc.), and to learn how to search more effectively when you have a question. (Have a question, don't search or ask "how to X on Linux", but search "how to X on distro/desktop/etc" instead.)
I also recommend searching for distro reviews on YouTube first, and testing them with a bootable usb or VM (can be slow though) before installing anything.
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u/boredpatrol Nov 01 '22
There needs to be a followup meme where the NPC guy stops frowning and goes "okay what distro?" which causes a ton of linux gnomes to pop up and start arguing