the reason browsers use so much memory is a result of JavaScript, read justfuckingusehtml.com to get more insight.

the browser I used that got the least amount of memory is emacs (eww). Sure it doesn’t have js but it is a literal goldmine of the best articles your eyeballs have layed on since 2015. the internet nowadays has become so enshittified I use eww just so I can get away from the dumbed down shit search results that come from these (clearly) money motivated outlets. Those MF have no passion whatsoever, they’re init for the $$$.

If you still want js, use qutebrowser, it doesn’t have extensions but at 300 MB it’s the best option out there, I do like the UI and overall navigation: it takes inspiration from vim/nvim and you can keybind shortcuts for specific functions.

its great in the sense it offers both glibc and musl, between using void and arch, I do prefer arch more; faster installation times and it uses about the same memory (on idle) as it would with void. in the end I chose arch Linux as I’m more familiar with it; I’ve been using it for 4 months now and there are specific applications i use that are easier to install and get on arch than with void.

as I continue to say, arch now is what windows 10 was 10 years ago, you have AUR, you have pacman. With some minor problem solving here and there, applications haven’t been easier to install on linux.

bought a Chromebook to just put Linux on it.

this is what god would have wanted, I’m doing gods work.

in a world where everything is dominated by convenience, eg. AI being a convenient source of information, GUI’s being a conveniet way of navigating information. I chose my distro to do the complete opposite. I wanted a distro that if an error arises it would give me a detailed message, not some vague response like “check the logs” where It doesn’t explain how to navigate there.

you may know where im going with this, I went with Cauchy OS and hyprland primarily for the speed of the kernel and the surplus amount of information and documentation with AUR. I cannot leave arch on the basis of how fast it is, for a massive update to install the latest core packages of the OS it takes about 2 min whereas fedora takes 15 and well windows (comediaclly, stereotypically popularized by space force) takes 45 minutes, we’ll leave it at that. The reason I chose hyprland is strictly on the same notion that learning skills does make the tools you use convenient, hyprland uses keybind over traditional mouse for navigating, launching apps, opening terminals, etc… and you become much faster with keybinds whereas a mouse is limited by the performance of it. using hyprland came to me as an extension when my professor taught me emacs (a TUI based text-editors). its why over the years (despite having used one initially) I just continue to despise IDE’s for writing code especially with most editors shipping proprietary AI into the mix. It’s not convenient anymore when I have to delete every code suggestion the AI makes.

“convenience” has effectively lost all of it’s meaning in technology. To me, convenience has been popularized to justify intellectual laziness, and embraced by tech orgs because they can capitalize off of it.