Friday, September 25, 2020

Desktop upgrade completed

  I finally upgraded my desktop, added the SSD and kept my old HDD.  While at it, I switched my OS to Manjaro with KDE. And I am really happy with it.  It is pretty snappy and fast compared to GNOME.  Yet there is a weird memory leak after some time, the swap memory starts filling up, and I end up using as much swap as memory, so if I use up 6GB of RAM, after sometime SWAP will be used up to 6GB.

  I do not think I would ever need to switch back to Windows.  There is nothing that I am missing from that OS. Even work everything can be done in the browser. No need for proprietary software or anything that required Windows. My hobby which is photography can be fully done on a linux machine, download the images, process enhance, upload them etc...

  I also changed the OS on my trusty Dell laptop, while the battery is now 100% dead, I installed ZorinOS. I had AntergOS on it, but after sometime since that project was abandoned it started failing during updates, some packages were conflicting, or running into dependency issues. So I decided to try a new OS. So far so good, just tried it for browsing, and getting to know the OS.  Will update after having done more mileage on it.

  Cheers for now.