1. LTSC + WSL (Better than VM)
2. Dual Boot
3. Linux only

Or Win10 IoT LTSC till 2032

To me Adobe has very bad UI, I did try to use it, and first time was awful. Freehand was a lot more intuitive, but when Macromedia was bought, was killed.

I get, that a lot of people did learn to use Adobe UI, and of course they want the same because they’re used to, but doesn’t make it better.

Affinity is more friendlier that PS to me.

I’m not saying that GIMP UI is perfect or good, but right now, to my casual use case, is not bad. Obviously can be better, and get some ideas from other UIs.

I prefer:

• ImagePipe: fast edit
• Snapseed: complex edit (not FOSS)
• Aves: gallery
• Superimage: AI upscaler (RealESRGAN)
• Waifu2x NCNN: AI upscaler (Waifu2x, RealCuGAN)

With ChaiNNer you can remove background, upscale (local), it’s a lot more flexible and compatible with models than Upscayl, also a little bit more complex (node based, not as complex as comfyUI). You can upscale an image with a face model and use other model for everything else in the same image.

Use Termux, you need:

• Android Tablet/Smartphone.
• Bluetooth keyboard.
• Cheap stand 4 device.

That’s my setup to play tabletop rpg (DND5E) for a couple of years, all CLI using any text editor you like with markdown. I use: tmux, vis.

In your case: SC-IM, visidata, any text editor.

With Termux you can use packages from repo or from other distros with proot-distro, like: Alpine, Avoid, Debian, Arch, Fedora, Ubuntu.

• ChaiNNer: is very flexible and can do all of that. Node based.
• Upscayl: do only upscales with less models, but has simpler UI, very fast in AMD GPU (because NCNN).

• I haven’t tried automatic1111 or ComfyUI yet.
• All of them work offline withou limits and are more flexible than online alternatives.

GIMP has:

• OpenVINO.
• stable-gimpfusion
• gimp-stable-boy

I’ve tried FOSS keyboards, but always return to Gboard, my particular needs are: Swype and bilingual suggestions (English and Spanish). There are alternatives for Swype style, but none works good with bilingual language.

As an alternative I use, Unexpected keyboard, very good and small, is like a better and updated hacker’s keyboard (abandoned). Give this a try. Very useful specially with Termux or similar.

Last time I did check Cdromance, don’t have links to download anymore, I like that place because has many roms with patched QoL romhacks. Maybe now you need to have an account.

Your right, now I did remove FFUpdater, I’ve got Mull updated adding DivestOS Official repo to Droidify (included, but you need to enable), and Cromite from GitHub.

Because Mull from default repo is 1 version and 2 weeks behind.

If your new, just install and use Droidify (is a lot faster than F-droid).

Now I use:

• Obtanium 4 things that aren’t in F-droid or prefer faster update (like Newpipe).

• Cmus.
• mpg123 4 internet radios.
• FFplay | mpv.
• zxtune.
• Years ago: moc or deadbeef (because foobar2000).

Maybe netsurf, Dillo or w3m/links, if you don’t need JavaScript, if you do, you need at least 4GB RAM to have a better web experience.

Today’s web is very RAM hungry (bloat).

• Hardware (GPU) encoders are worst than software encoders.
• GPU Acceleration is good for faster encoding and free CPU to do other things. But you get bigger files at similar quality.
• Maybe is useful for live streaming or if you really really need CPU do other things.

• This or any tiling window manager, because small screen. If dwm is hard for you, try with bellow options.
• i3wm was my first, but now I’m happy with my actual dwm config.
• Awesomewm starts as a dwm fork, but with all included and easier for beginners.
• There are a lot more, but I start with this.

You get better screen use space and smaller memory requirements.

But your real big problem, is going to be web browser, all of them consume insane amount of RAM because of web bloat, and always is going to be a problem. Just 1 tab open and a lot of patience.

My old netbook had just 1GB ram, later I did an upgrade to 2GB and was the maximum possible.

• I usually use Lemmy at my smartphone with 4G that was released 3 years ago, I’m happy with it, and I don’t need other one more new and expensive.

• The area of 4G is very congested, then the connection is slower in peak hours.

• Only rich people has last medium and high end smartphone with 5G, and live in area with that coverage.

• I live now in downtown, and just got slow fiber connection 3 months ago, there are a lot buildings with only ADSL in this area, and it’s the capital.

• Maybe you are lucky, with good connection.

• Is not so hard to optimize the image for everyone in the world, and maybe put a link to original big image of you want.

• There’s a lot of ways to optimize, like changing resolution, reduce colors, clean image. And compression, using webp lossy 95% you got a very small file that looks very close to the original, usually got less than 1MB.

• Today’s web is very bloated for no reason, and very slow in old computers. Browsers are the main RAM eaters.

Yep

Still strong, maybe I need 1 more to decide if it’s a keeper.

It’s a lose adaptation of next Alucard/Belmont saga:

• Rondo of Blood.
• Symphony of the night.
• Bloodlines (just some enemies like Countess Bathory and Drolza).
• I did enjoy it, nice production, some poor writing some times, but not 100% nor 50‰, to me it’s like 75% at least.
• It’s not like source (games) has awesome writing, just a motivation to kill enemy every game.
• I really hope when finishing this adaptation, they follow with next and final Alucard arc in the future (our present).

Very dark episode, I did like it, and makes this anime a more interesting.