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Doing a bit of an explore of the desktop environments on the Toughpad to see what's out there that's touch friendly. This is on Debian 12. I'll probably re-visit this when I move to Debian 13 in a few months time.

- #Gnome : tried both #X11 and #Wayland versions, Classic and the present UI… quite inflexible and the UI elements are practically invisible for driving with a stylus. On-screen keyboard is next to useless as it puts digits and symbols on separate pages and does not implement function keys or modifiers.
- #MATE : Seems to have limited screen scaling options and appearance customisation making stylus/touch operation tricky… but at least Onboard keyboard works.
- #Cinnamon : has the best built-in on-screen keyboard seen so far, but summoning it is not obvious and the layout is still sub-optimal for passwords (but ESC, function keys and modifiers are there!). You lose ⅓ of the screen to the keyboard, even if you're not using it.
- #XFCE seems to work pretty well, I was able to bump the size of the panel up a bit, it uses Onboard for the on-screen keyboard, seems to be the best so far.

Just waiting on #LXQT to install… we'll see how that is.

This is not how I was expecting my Sunday night to turn out. #OpenBSD 7.7 disc burned but refused to boot. My laptop was having issues reading the disc so I burned another copy. Same thing....

So, what's next on the list to be installed? #OpenIndiana - cool. Also haven't used this one in years. LiveCD boots into the #mate desktop just fine. It's missing some key drivers though. I will spend more time with it later. I just need a working laptop for now.

Let's go with #FreeBSD14. Always a good choice and I just used this disc on another machine recently. But tonight the laptop is not recognizing it and the laptop just boots to the memtest. Hmmm...

OK, let's try the #openSUSE Leap 16 beta again. Same problem as before. It installs but the OS doesn't boot. I don't even get the "GRUB Booting..." message. Wonderful.

Last on the list is #Debian 12. The installer is chugging along happily and I've just realized it's been several hours, I've forgotten to prep dinner, and I am starving.

Whoops!

It's now 21:41, I am mostly done with my coffee and about to crank on the grill. This laptop can wait.

We need to become slightly more selective in our choice of additional subtropical trees given the physical constraints of our patch of dirt.

After fruit and nuts, home grown caffeine is likely next.

Yerba mate is supposed to do well in USDA zones 9 and 10. Since it is a holly, it shouldn't require a lot of work.

Will we get caffeinated squirrels and blue jays? Time will tell, 😃.

My husband, @jbqueru requires saved sessions for his multiple dev apps under Linux. We found that NONE of the DEs are saving sessions *properly*. #Gnome & #Cinnamon don't at all, #Mate has bugs, #XFce only saves its own apps, and #KDE only saves 1 workspace, with no positioning, and only when saving the session manually. #Wayland or #X11, same abysmal behavior.

You might hate on #MacOS, but that's one thing it does well.

Mate hasn't progressed almost at all in 2 years so it's a good comparison study. With Debian 12, it consumed 730 MB of RAM on a clean boot. With Debian 13 (-Testing) it's 930 MB. Which means that the rest of the subsystem grew by 25% in 2 years (without counting that an actively developed DE would consume more too). Exponentially-speaking, that's double the RAM in 6 years time. That's a lot. Linux is becoming rather bloated, fast.