Spooky behaviour with Ubuntu 24.04.x

[Sorin Srbu]

On tor, 2025-03-13 at 10:55 +0000, Ian Bruntlett wrote:
> Hi Sorin,
> 
> On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 at 07:13, Sorin Srbu via ubuntu-users <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > On ons, 2025-03-12 at 20:59 +0000, Ian Bruntlett wrote:
> > > Strangely (spookily), the system I am typing this on is a Lenovo ThinkPad T420 and it runs Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS just fine - even with a mere 8GiB RAM.
> > > 
> > > And Debian runs OK in 8 GiB RAM.
> > 
> 
>  
> > What desktop environment did you say, you were using with the only 8 GB
> > RAM? I can't find it in the previous post.
> On this laptop, running Ubuntu (not Xubuntu or other flavours) with 8GiB RAM, here are the details:
> $XDG_SESSION_TYPE is "wayland"
> 
> $GDMSESSION is "ubuntu"
> 
> And it works perfectly fine.
> 
> Do you need other details?


Hello!

Nah, was just curious as to what sort of environment could use so
little RAM!

Wayland is leaner than x11, then?


sorin at lanfear2:~$ echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE
x11
sorin at lanfear2:~$ echo $DESKTOP_SESSION
plasma
sorin at lanfear2:~$ echo $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
KDE

I'm stubbornly hanging on to x11... :-}
Anyway, above works well with my 32 GB RAM on work laptop and the 64 GB
RAM on my WFH workstation.


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