Maybe you mean Cachy OS or Tumbleweed?

Snap has advantages though, apps works across different distros I think?

“Similar to Godot’s language. It’s terribly inefficient”

Don’t know what you mean, but Godot app is only around 3mb, and it’s not as bloated as Python, though it has some high level layers or somthing too, and not as direct as C++.

I think with newer CPUs Python’s current speed will be less of a problem but if your intention is game dev I think this is not enough.

As a beginner, these AI frameworks are written and C++ and you can do it there, but nobody does it and all the books out there or video courses are specifically for Python.

I wrote a console tictactoe game with primitive AI opponent using both Python and C++ and python takes more time in the background process before making a move than in C++.

I think I can handle the ads part, but the ‘lighter’ part, thats a good one.

Mint? Is it as slow and bloated as Ubuntu, its base? Didnt you need to make it LMDE to make it faster and lighter a bit?

Ok, I see, thanks for the info, man. That’s very helpful.

So the bloat is on the disk, ISO file size, not on ram or performance or something?

Are you saying Ubuntu isnt slow? The bloat only comes from the pre-installed apps, snap, and gnome desktop?

GNOME desktop and background processes others distros don’t have?

Yes, just recently, as a new user.

Dunno, Its Mint that I want.

No.

Ubuntu then Debian for lightweight then Arch, then still researching.

Arch was my first choice, but it forces you to keep up to date and use the latest cutting edge software, its like Windows. So I am researching Debian, Mint, and Fedora instead.

Tried xfce. Original, and looks like MacOS.

No, I’m fine.

Yeah, very close though, but you didnt get LMDE fully.