Do you use a smaller kernel build? How do you get 880mb of ram usage? The lowest i can get is 9901010mb with the graphics. In tty its 850950mb. Not that it matters because i have 16gbs of ram but lower number better i guess?
I was getting the same resourve usage on NixOS as well. I think I was get to more on Arch and I'm getting more on Fedora too. I think it has something to do with NixOS' packaging being quite well-optimised because you can just have better optimisiations by not having any useless services running (controlled via configuration.nix)
For whatever reason, when I see unixporn like this, it makes me want to redo my system but also try unify my rice across my main desktop and laptop. I seriously need to look into getting my dot files sorted.
I was like that five years ago. If you have the energy, I would say go for it. Explore all the different ways you can work, with tiling window managers, shortcuts and different apps to get notifications and other things. It's a lot of fun.
Go into the nvim universe for a while too. I was there and wrote my own config and my own plugins, was fun.
I mean, why not.. :) What else is fun at a computer...
