Re: Not Much LINUX Stuff of Late

On 01/08/2026 12:53, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
> The Natural Philosopher wrote this screed in ALL-CAPS (fixed):
> 
>> On 31/07/2026 17:54, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>>> Why would I, when it takes about ten seconds to boot?
>>>
>>> Cleans out the kruft 🙂
>>
>> I generally find closing Firefox does that on mine
>>
>> It is a memory hog.
> 
> Indeed.
> 
> Otoh, the always-on mini PC would use up all the RAM and the
> swap and then go nuts trying to clean it up.
> 
Oddly enough, this desktop does NOT.

Mind you this summer the power company has been rebooting my machines 
every other day.


> Finally traced it to picom (compositor). It's got major memory
> leaks. Restarting it would clean out gigabtyes worth.
> 
> I got tired of doing it manually (or forgetting to do it), so made
> a cron job that runs at 2 AM.
> 
> Why do I put up with picom? I find it helpful in my workflow.
> 

Yeah. Know what you mean, Same reason I have a windows XP VM.

For some tasks Corel Draw - even 20years old - is unbeatable
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