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Baloo is indexing your file system, you can disable it, but its memory usage should drop once it is done. How long it will take to finish depends on how many files you have.

If memory usage is a concern you can always try a lightweight desktop environment but with 16GB you are just fine staying on KDE Plasma.

A subscription to play games either downloads or streaming

Yes, NeWS (Network extensible Window System) from Sun Microsystems but it hasn’t been maintained for years and had commercial licensing fees, and DirectFB used in embedded systems.

And as others mentioned Mir from Canonical which now implements the Wayland protocol.

During the early days of Pulse Audio. Sound sometimes would stop working for inexplicable reasons.

Ideological and practical reasons. It does everything I want how I want and doesn’t get in the way.

I expect an uptick every time a major Windows update does something users don’t want. After the uptick some might go back to Windows or switch to Mac. But otherwise it will be a very slow and steady growth for GNU+Linux. I don’t think GNU+Linux will pass 10% desktop OS market share before 2035, it might even take longer.

Try to first switch the programs you are using to ones that are available on Linux, e.g. use Krita or GIMP instead of Photoshop, and LibreOffice or OnlyOffice instead of Microsoft Office. If that works for you then you know you can switch.

I am currently using two on two different distros on two different computers. Cinnamon and KDE Plasma.

What if it were AMD/Intel but with FOSS firmware? rms uses a ThinkPad x200 with GNU Boot.

Otherwise I don’t know how mature RISC V laptops are if they even exist.

In China they have the Kaihong BotBook which runs OpenHarmony (Apache v2 license) and has an ARM processor. I don’t know if importing let alone using an open source OS more obscure than GNU+Linux is an option for you.

If money was no object I’d book a ticket to China and get me a MateBook Fold. Though whether HarmonyOS will work for me and whether GNU+Linux is supported are unknowns that make me hesitant if I ever had the money.

I pronounce Uranus as Οὐρανός

Install them in your $HOME

For example $HOME/MY_CLI_TOOLS

Add it to your $PATH

I’m glad someone forked OnlyOffice but wish they came up with a better name than EuroOffice

It is an AMD Jaguar from 2013.

I add my vote for MXLinux

I use LinuxMint and have been since 2018 or so. I have been using since 2007. Though the first time I tried using it was in 2003 but it didn’t go well for me at the time.

Use something stable and boring like LinuxMint. No issues in 7 years.

Could be that Proton is just a few Wine releases behind, or their customization and extras break a few things unintentionally.

If it is about looks, it is possible to install themes.

I guess not, https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?init