What linux distro should I install for my pc?

[MzQ1NjExN2]

OK guys. It installed without any problems. After 15 minutes of "how to install Opera" research, I'm ready for anything. LOL

Make sure your firewall is turned on.

Open the terminal and type:

sudo ufw enable

To check firewall status:

sudo ufw status

Status with more details:

sudo ufw status verbose

Also when you open the terminal window are you able to grab and drag the terminal window around the screen?

 

[Graveworm]

Make sure your firewall is turned on.

Open the terminal and type:

sudo ufw enable

To check firewall status:

sudo ufw status

Status with more details:

sudo ufw status verbose

Also when you open the terminal window are you able to grab and drag the terminal window around the screen?

Opera seems a bit challenging. Do you have any other browsers you can recommend?
How can I check how much you use what?

 

[MzQ1NjExN2]

Opera seems a bit challenging. Do you have any other browsers you can recommend?

I use brave. chromium, mullvad, and firefox-esr.

sudo apt-get install chromium

sudo apt-get install firefox-esr

sudo apt install curl
sudo curl -fsSLo /usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg
sudo curl -fsSLo /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.sources https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/brave-browser.sources
sudo apt update
sudo apt install brave-browser

Don't do the one step install. Use the above.

From:

Installing Brave on Linux | Brave

The Brave browser is a fast, private and secure web browser for PC, Mac and mobile. Download now to enjoy a faster ad-free browsing experience that saves data and battery life by blocking tracking software.

brave.com

Mullvad browser:

Mullvad Browser for Linux

Download Mullvad Browser for Linux to enhance privacy with anti-fingerprinting, no telemetry, and private browsing. Supports Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora.

mullvad.net

Try them out and you use the one you like. Or better yet keep them all.

How can I check how much you use what?

Don't understand your question.

 

[MzQ1NjExN2]

A thread on browsers:

Thread 'Well, this person really doesn't like Firefox anymore...'

Jun 17, 2025

I'm not sure that I agree with everything they had to say about Firefox, but it's a solid rant and reading it amused me. It amused me enough to share. (I found it on Slashdot.)

Firefox is dead to me

Opinion: Parent company Mozilla's not my fave either

www.theregister.com

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[Graveworm]

Don't understand your question.

I mean, how can I check how much ram is being used.

 

[MzQ1NjExN2]

I mean, how can I check how much ram is being used.

Many ways. One way:

sudo apt-get install inxi

Then type inxi in terminal and hit enter. You can also install htop and run that.

 

[Brickwizard]

Some useful inxi codes

inxi -A [audio]
inxi -C [cpu]
inxi -D []drives]
inxi -G [graphics]
inxi -M [memory]
inxi -N [network]

inxi -Fnxx full report for own use for information to post use the z filter [inxi -Fnxxz]

there are plenty of others, but these are the most commonly used

 

[Graveworm]

Many ways. One way:

sudo apt-get install inxi

Then type inxi in terminal and hit enter. You can also install htop and run that.

Kind of messed up right?

 

[Graveworm]

And this is after i closed all the tabs in Opera.

 

[MzQ1NjExN2]

You can sort each column by clicking on the green line to find out what is using up the most resources for each category.

FYI:

Chapter 3.1.1 htop — Lubuntu Manual 25.10 documentation

manual.lubuntu.me

 

[CaffeineAddict]

And this is after i closed all the tabs in Opera.

htop is cool command line tool but it requires you to understand what it displays and how to use.
Specifically for memory usage you're interested in "RES" column which stands for "Residual memory".
Other 2 columns are "VIRT" and "SHR" which stand for "virtual memory" and "shared memory".

If you don't understand what this means exactly then I suggest you to use GUI tool that's included in your DE, which is called "LXQt System Monitor".

htop is mostly used for special purposes which don't fit what you're looking for.

 

[osprey]

htop is cool command line tool but it requires you to understand what it displays and how to use.
Specifically for memory usage you're interested in "RES" column which stands for "Residual memory".
Other 2 columns are "VIRT" and "SHR" which stand for "virtual memory" and "shared memory".

If you don't understand what this means exactly then I suggest you to use GUI tool that's included in your DE, which is called "LXQt System Monitor".

htop is mostly used for special purposes which don't fit what you're looking for.

In htop, the RES measure is the same as the RSS measure used in other apps or commands where RSS stands for "resident set size". In the htop manpage it explicitly makes that point with the text:

 M_RESIDENT (RES)
            The resident set size (text + data + stack) of the process (i.e. the size of the process's used physical memory).

For example, it's just called RSS in the ps command:

[~]$ ps aux | head
USER         PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root           1  0.0  0.0  25416 15848 ?        Ss   06:07   0:01 /sbin/init
root           2  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    06:07   0:00 [kthreadd]
root           3  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    06:07   0:00 [pool_workqueue_release]
root           4  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        I<   06:07   0:00 [kworker/R-rcu_gp]
root           5  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        I<   06:07   0:00 [kworker/R-sync_wq]
root           6  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        I<   06:07   0:00 [kworker/R-kvfree_rcu_reclaim]
root           7  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        I<   06:07   0:00 [kworker/R-slub_flushwq]
root           8  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        I<   06:07   0:00 [kworker/R-netns]
root          10  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        I<   06:07   0:00 [kworker/0:0H-events_highpri]

The RSS measure is a reasonably useful measure of the size of a program in memory. RSS, standing for "resident set size", suggests its meaning of the size of the residence it takes up in memory. IT language and acronyms can be "interesting" to decypher.

The terse description in the ps manpage is:

resident set size, the non-swapped physical memory that a task has used (in kilobytes)

Memory functions and memory usage in linux is complex, which is evident from this description in the ps manpage:

RSS  fields don't count some parts of a process including the page tables, kernel stack, struct thread_info, and struct task_struct.

In terms of memory usage thus, one tends to be dealing with approximations and conditional measures, but that doesn't make the measure any less useful but it's wise to be mindful of what things mean and their nuances if possible.

 

[CaffeineAddict]

RES measure is the same as the RSS measure used in other apps or commands where RSS stands for "resident set size"

You're right, I didn't look into man pages so it seems I forgot the exact meaning of or RES.

Last time I read about it was here:

 

[KGIII]

(I'm sorry for disappointing you)

Oh, I'm not disappointed. For better or worse, I don't expect folks to be all that familiar with Shakespeare in the modern era.

I downloaded Lubuntu and will install it when I am available today.

Excellent choice.

 

[Graveworm]

Guys, you can close the topic. I went back to Windows. Linux is not for me. Thank you very much for your help.

 

[KGIII]

Guys, you can close the topic. I went back to Windows. Linux is not for me. Thank you very much for your help.

I'll lock it. If/when you change your mind, we're still going to be here. In the meantime, you can always practice in a virtual machine, like VirtualBox.

 

[f33dm3bits]

Guys, you can close the topic. I went back to Windows. Linux is not for me. Thank you very much for your help.

Still thought I'd reply, even though the topic has been closed. It would have been interesting to know why you said Linux is not for you. Whether it was the learning curve or specific software that's incompatible or something else.