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   The Natural Philosopher to Carlos E. R.   
   Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a   
   17 Feb 26 14:10:27   
   
   From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 17/02/2026 14:03, Carlos E. R. wrote:   
   > On 2026-02-17 14:17, Marc Haber wrote:   
   >> Nuno Silva  wrote:   
   >>> I haven't used desktop environments in a long time, I remember the days   
   >>> KDE was heavy enough to be a problem with, what was it, 64 MiB RAM? :-)   
   >>>   
   >>> (The problem might have been not the DE itself, but that it didn't leave   
   >>> much to run other not-so-light applications like OOo.)   
   >>   
   >> In these days the memory footprint of the DE stops counting when the   
   >> browser is started.   
   >   
   > Right.   
   >   
   > I have seen Thunderbird at 15 GB resident size in my desktop machine. In   
   > this laptop, it is no 1.7 GiB. FFx is more difficult to evaluate, it is   
   > dozens of processes.   
   >   
   Odd. T-bird is at 1.4GB on this desktop...   
   Firefox is ginormous.   
      
   several GB for sure   
      
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