root folders as in /bin /etc.?
Timeshift can make use of BTRFS snapshots btw
Not a bad idea, but if possible, you want to skip loading the ad altogether, which is – to my understanding – what currently happens.
Oh my god
It’s great that you mention this, but this is a different layer of abstraction than what we were previously talking about.
Just to nitpick, RAM is usually not idle.
I guess I should be happy that I’ve never heard of winforms?
I’m not old enough to remember XMPP first-hand, so allow me to ask what functionality you mean. Do you mean to imply a fediverse, where whatsapp.com is merely an instance, such as lemmy.world is here?
Regarding security, yes. Other than that, Beeper allows you to centralize all kinds of messaging apps into one pretty nice (and open-source AFAIK) UI. Currently using it for all my hardly-used communication channels.
It has become better, though.
Assuming the prerequisite of joining Lemmy doesn’t skew this, people who post would be a small minitority. Might be similar for the other features you mentioned.
Force of habit? Plus, if I used Windows, I wouldn’t use Edge out of spite. Fuck their shady ways of pushing users to use it.