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   John Ames  news:20251210085823.00007aa1@gmail.com   
   Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:58:23 GMT in comp.os.linux.advocacy, wrote:   
      
   > On Wed, 10 Dec 2025 10:30:19 +0100   
   > Marc Haber  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Thankfully we nowadays have computers that are so vastly powerful that   
   >> it doesn't matter how "fat" our desktops are.   
   >>   
   >> And, once a current browser is running, the memory footprint of KDE   
   >> compared with "frugal" desktops as lxfe or xfce doesn't matter any   
   >> more anyway.   
   >   
   > Hard disagree. It's bad enough that modern websites are as corpulent as   
   > they've become; I don't need everything *else* in my system infected by   
   > the same mentality.   
      
   I agree with you concerning the modern websites. I'm gobsmacked at how some   
   are laid out and what my browser has to do to render it for me. Especially   
   some of the official websites for some of the bands I like.   
      
   Nickelback for example has a monster. This machine brings it up nice and   
   quick; but my other rigs take a bit longer and it's not nice and snappy.   
   Granted, they are various degrees of older technology.. but, I digress.   
      
   > (One day Moore's Law will hit the wall with pesky real-world physics   
   > constraints, and we'll stop getting "easy" exponential drops in $/bit.   
   > That'll be a *real* interesting time...)   
      
   That it will. I'm,not quite sure if it's something I'm looking forward to or   
   not though. :)   
      
      
      
      
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