Wurst ist ja auch eine Form, keine Fleischsorte.

Darauf ein Glas Scheuermilch

Sounds like something suited for Gentoo. Nobody's going to download binary kernel images from a random Github

Der Verhandlungstisch:

Who at FOM had the genius idea to start qualifying right when 24h Le Mans starts? F1 qualifying could have started 90 minutes earlier and tomorrow the race 30 minutes later.

a prelude to something not optional

How would that even work in FOSS?

The difference being that in the one of those cases you still need to open a browser instance before you are able to browse the web.

Firefox is absolutely unusable on that PC. Falkon runs much better.

And if you’re trying to be economical about RAM usage, things like fancy window decorations, window animations, and other purely aesthetic stuff like that can of course go.

That's negligible at best and imaginary at worst. Themes that aren't used, aren't loaded into RAM.

I was playing around with an old laptop dual booting Fedora KDE and W11. And Fedora on fresh boot was using the same/more ram than 11.

Windows compresses RAM these days, not sure if Fedora does by default. Also, by itself Windows is surprisingly RAM efficient. I think it's a holdover from Windows 8 which was developed for tablets when Microsoft tried competing with iPads.

The problems arise when web views like the news widget load. Then all the past optimizations no longer matter.