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Guys.......why are we even bothering here? It's now apparent that this is a classic case of "Do not feed the trolls". He's a far more intelligent one than most, granted; poses it as a discussion point.....quite earnestly, really..! But, this:- .....was a massive warning sign, and the biggest...

@jumponlinux :- So; basically, you'd like Linux to morph into a free version of Windows? Dream on, sunshine. Never going to happen. Anyway, Linux is no longer dominated by the command-line. You're living in the past if you think that's the case. "The Terminal" will ALWAYS be there...

@Debian_SuperUser :- Me, I have 32GB RAM, 5+ TB fast, SSD storage, 64GB swap space - blame HP for that, not me; if you don't suspend/hibernate the entire 32GB of RAM (regardless of the amount used) to a single, contiguous location, it throws a wobbly and refuses to wake up! - with swappiness...

@Brief-Wishbone9091 :- My own view, having been in both subordinate AND supervisory positions when I was working, is this.....FWIW :- IF you are this individual's line-chief, section head OR in any kind of direct supervisory capacity over them, then you have a perfect right to concern yourself...

.....and an FX-8350. Hm. Trouble is, all these Bulldozer-family (Piledriver/Excavator/Steamroller) chips hail from the AMD "wilderness" years, when nobody was firmly in charge at AMD and some God-awful design choices were made. And because of the weird way that AMD had split those 8 cores up...

@Sekullarx :- Mm; no, that wouldn't work any better, I don't think. It seems you don't quite understand what we're saying. It's not the operating system that's the problem.....it's the DE (Desktop Environment) that's the RAM hog here. Granted, the GNOME desktop is the simplest...

Slight 'red-herring' here; not exactly on-topic, but related. Going back some years, we used to be on a "capped" connection - only so many GB per month (I think it was around 10 GB). So; I had to watch bandwidth usage like a hawk! Long ago, I found this bandwidth monitoring package from a guy...

@rAIner-linux :- Welcome to the Forum. You're not the only who hasn't had any luck with Etcher. Despite it being the number one recommended installer utility in the Linux world, it won't work for us in the Puppy Linux community. Etcher doesn't understand about decompressing read-only SFS...

@noelw :- Suspend is the usual mode of operation for me. I'll often stick with one particular occupant of the "kennels" for several days, suspending overnight & shutting the monitor off. I'll eventually feel like a change, and will switch to another Puppy. In my case, it makes very little...

I'm not too far off that. My primary on the HP desktop rig - a 1 TB Crucial MX500 SSD - is pretty close; if I run the 'dd'-based 'DriveSpeed!' ( a utility I put together that uses dd's ability to test and output data transfer rates), I consistently get a write speed of around 290 MB/s, and read...

Touch-screen, perhaps? Maybe noelw uses an on-screen, virtual keyboard. No reason why it couldn't work, though it wouldn't be MY preferred way of doing things. I'm essentially a tactile individual, and much prefer stuff I can feel and physically interact with..... Mike. :)

Slight redesign on my daily driver, currently a highly-customized/hugely upgraded Puppy Xenialpup64 7.5:- I've taken as a base the desktop background from my even more highly-modified Slacko Puppy 5.6.0.......but changed the colour slightly, along with streamlining and tidying-up many of the...

To this I would add that the recent Void Linux-based "Kennel Linux" OSs are very much worth looking at, too. The original Kennel Linux variant - and the most mature - KLV "Airedale" uses the XFCE/Thunar combo, and is updateable via Void's XBPS package management system. Behind the scenes, it...

I've multi-booted for many years.......but I AM talking "only Linux" here (and Puppy Linux in particular). I have everything set-up in such a way that I can 'share' a lot of stuff between Pups - apps, as well as data - and can 'swap' Puppies mid-way through a project, then pick it up again in...

Welllll..... I've just finished backing-up all dozen or so current occupants of the 'kennels'. Which has taken me about 40-45 minutes, in total... An hour well-spent. And that runs in the background, while I'm getting on with other stuff... Mike.

Mm. Sounds to me like it could simply be a bad ISO download. It does happen, from time to time. The internet is pretty reliable, for the most part.......but it's still far from perfect. Did you also download the checksum, and make sure the ISO was clean & error-free, before installing it? What...

@CaffeineAddict :- I was just replying to a post made today. But yeah; you're right. I hadn't noticed.... :oops: :p Mike.

@wolly :- Please answer the question you're actually asked. You keep evading the questions we need answers to and just concentrating on what you're interested in. We can't help you like this. IF you interact with us, and answer questions when they're asked, you might just find that you'll get...

Yup; that would work, too. Mike. :p

There's also EagleCAD. Yes, you do need to create an a/c, but it runs entirely locally, is free to use, and should be immediately familiar to anyone that's ever used AutoCAD.......'cos it comes from the same people (AutoDesk). (Oops; my mistake. It appears the "free" version I downloaded and...