for me its 11-12 hours, 8 hours in the morning and another 3-4 hours in the afternoon

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.

I recently saw this and it pissed me off so much. I use vivado for my engineering coursework and when I found out they dropped Linux support for the 2026.1 version it does sting a little.

I don’t blame them for doing it, my immediate reaction to the news was people were taking advantage of vivado who weren’t actually students so I completely understand there stance, I just wish there was another way…

the article is quite misleading describing it as a “bait-and-switch.” It is not a bait and switch, this is a reasonable stance of which if I were working at amd in the FPGA line I too would make that decision to pull the free version of vivado/vitis away from Linux. Whether or not you believe that is up to you.

anyways, as much as I do respect amd’s decision I have moved away to f4pga which is an open source fpga toolchain. doesn’t have much device support as you may get with vivado (7-series, and a few other microcontroller brands) but it offers enough for my use case.