Been using sway on my orange pi’s and hyprland on my x86_64 PC for years and I never had any issues with em. And I suppose with openbox the experience will be exactly the same thing.

Right now.

I’m running Dietpi (Which is pretty much a “tweaked” debian) on my orange pi 5 max and arch linux on my x86_64 pc. Both are bare metal installations, so the “killer feature” is, er… whatever I want, pretty much. I also have a orange pi zero 3 running dietpi serving me nextdns under docker… and another orange pi zero 3 serving as my “Theres a blackout going on in town and all I have to do is to play retropie” pc.

A trickster that wants to make a fool of everyone out of pleasures and illusions of grandeur? Definitely Ubuntu. Promises a “easy to use” distro while installing unsolicited packages and fetching unauthorized info without your consent on the background.

I don’t make up stuff, but rely on facts and logic instead. :^)

“Typical” implies “standard”, so a low to mid end rig. Which also means (presumably) a "standard’ use case i.e what any “typical” user does – search for something on the internet, see funny videos and post on online communities such as facebook or similars. And before you say “define a typical user” – a user that has a very basic understanding on how to interact with a computer and use it properly. So… even “your mom” fits this criteria.

Nothing is stopping you from making a terminal with a very niche command running on the background 24/7 and call that a “window bar” btw, so… as long as its a minimal installation, “they sky is the limit”. :^)

In a nutshell – sway has a “all-in-one” config. You can set up keyboard, mouse, screen resolution and even the screen Hz on its single file.

But yeah, if you want to (really) fiddle with it, you’ve got to learn how to deal with the config file first.

For instance, here is my completely messed up config file for sway.

(Working) wine for arm64 when?

Can’t go wrong with lynx.

Honestly, I’d rather record command and flags instead of relying on aliases to do that for me. Unless if its something very “niche” (like automatically pulling the required third party software everytime the distro boots up on .bash_profile).

rtorrent for me.

Here is me (still) hoping for arm64 to become mainstream just like x86_64.

t. I’m typing this on my orange pi 5 max. And the gap between this pc and a “typical” x86_64 one is almost nonexistant.

I don’t think you’ll need to do that, unless you are planning to download files that are over 4Gb long and/or you are using a potato that has less than 1 Gb of ram.

t. I’ve set my entire ram into a ramdisk, and the performance actually IMPROVED compared to not setting a ramdisk at all.

This is why I’ve set up a ramdisk on ~/.cache and ~/Downloads – “free” automatic cleanup plus a tad more of performance because why not.

For those interested, I’ve improved the code and introduced bottomless pits into the game, followed by increasing the spawn rate of enemies.