With a minimal i3wm GUI set up, my memory usage SKYROCKETED…

Twetch · April 18, 2020

With a minimal i3wm GUI set up, my memory usage SKYROCKETED to a whopping 70mb! In this state, the system had about 200 packages installed, compared to Ubuntu's ~1800 packages or so for a default installation. At this point the benefits were obvious to me.