

it does feel package installs are much faster on arch than on Debian. Then again, Debian probably has a bunch of precautionary steps when installing a package, such as checking for dependencies/dependency conflicts and verifying the package has been installed without error.
that said this is all true, your desktop environment uses a lot of memory gnome uses something along the lines of 1GB and same goes witu KDE. I’ve optimized my memory usage very well with mangoWM, on idle it uses like 600 MB. My browser uses more memory than my entire OS.






to extend this, look in the errors/bugs section of the software to see, that can at least allow you to brainstorm some solutions.
to make your own FOSS project, it’s not as easy as creating it, you need motivation something that you are trying to improve, that (simply put) doesn’t exist In other open source projects.
I’ve recently made scripts that convert scilab code to MATLAB since I use xcos often for my engineering coursework, my university uses MATLAB which is why I spend my free time on creating it.