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From: John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2026 10:21:17 -0800
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On Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:17:17 +0100
Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> wrote:

> In these days the memory footprint of the DE stops counting when the
> browser is started.

Frankly *every* aspect of modern computing is in need of industrial
liposuction - but the fact that one part of a user's ecosystem being
even more of a hog than the DE doesn't make the DE being a hog not
count; to the contrary, a bloated DE is going to make things even worse
when combined with a bloated browser loading bloated websites than it
would if the user wasn't relying on a browser at all, because there's
even less slack to spare for glitzy DE features.