In my last job we had some memory issues with the build, many times I ended up running out of memory, trying to build the huge Java monolith that was the stupid "product" we made. Automagically, the issues were resolved to a decent extent when switching from GNOME to XFCE, in Ubuntu 24.04.
There is still some use for lightweight even in today. You make better use of your memory/resources in some application, than in something so fundamental.
A list of some curation, possibly, but that has too many products to be one person's work, with affiliate links to Amazon US. There have been worse promos in here, I guess.
What is the issue of having affiliate links? The website itself is free, although infra, domain and my time are not. You can choose whether to buy through links or not, can't you?
Of course they do! They are as nasty as the music labels, it's just that people get more attached to the later, regardless of occupation and intelligence.
Like, imagine being forced to take Cloudflare's side!
There is still some use for lightweight even in today. You make better use of your memory/resources in some application, than in something so fundamental.
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