Another commenter suggested Tiny Core Linux and DSL2024, which are indeed as light as it gets, but you might find yourself limited in what you can do with them, and it's not necessary for those specs.
The next step up would be Q4OS Trinity and antiX. You should be able to get the Spotify app and your preferred web server running on either of those.
Kaya turned away from the scene, focusing on a distressed Kellan. “Nothing ever really changes, does it?” she asked. “It puts on a new coat and calls itself remade, but it’s all the same under the surface.”
Ravnica Remastered comes out next week. I am very funny.
I got the jab when I first read the story, but did not think it was intentional. Nice one.
Looking online, there are some suggestions to either (re)install xapp:
sudo apt install --reinstall xapp
or a related library:
sudo apt install --reinstall gir1.2-xapp-1.0
However, usually I find that errors like this mean nothing, so I wouldn't be surprised if these steps change nothing.
Definitely flatpak related then. Try running one of your flatpak apps from the terminal, and post the output here; might help pinpoint the issue. You can list the ones you have installed with flatpak list, then flatpak run <one of the listed apps, e.g. org.videolan.vlc>.
/dev/nvme0 is probably your SSD. But if it passed you probably have nothing to worry about
It still sounds to me like something's up with the disk. Can't think of any solutions to suggest but I would run a SMART health check on it:
sudo apt install smartmontools
sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda
If you prefer a graphical tool, you can do the same thing with GNOME Disks, which also has options for disk benchmarking.
In the resulting report, the overall health state should be "PASSED", the "Type" column should show "Pre-fail" and "Old age" values, and the "Media-Wearout-Indicator" should be close to 100. If the overall health state is "FAILED", then you will want to back up your files immediately and consider getting a new SSD.
GNOME and Plasma are so far separated that a merger would be impossible, without either eliminating one of the two or completely rewriting both, and I think they cover different niches. GNOME is for people who want a tightly integrated experience, and KDE is for people who want to customize their system. (I would also argue that it's not possible for there to be only one distro or DE, so long as all the components are open-source. Savvy users will always make their own stuff if they're allowed to.)
There's already plenty of cooperation between GNOME and KDE devs on common standards, support for each other's apps, etc. I hope this continues, and makes both desktops better. A lot of behind-the-scenes stuff, like Wayland extensions, could definitely become shared between the two desktops.
I suspect Plasma 6 will remove it. Though I'm liking this desktop setup so much I might just keep it for the rest of Debian Bookworm's lifespan.
This is nice but there are already tons of "how/why to start using Linux" websites. Not sure if we need another one.
You can start anywhere you want! I often recommend starting with Star Trek: The Next Generation, since it's aged a little better than the original series. You might prefer to jump ahead to season 2 or 3 to get to the really good stuff, but even season 1 is worth watching.
Up until Enterprise season 3 it's pretty much all episodic (or in DS9's case, mostly episodic with a subset of the episodes forming a series-long story arc), so you can pick a random episode or movie with a cool-sounding description and start there if you want. That's how I got into Trek, just picking random TNG and Voyager episodes.
I tried this yesterday and it looks like a great alternative to Puppy Linux, or even its base distro AntiX. The software selection is pretty well thought out; I'd never heard of BadWolf but it sounds like an excellent project. Way heavier than the original DSL, but once it's stable it'll be an easy addition to my list of recommendations for really old PCs.
Though - to make a minor nitpick - I have to disagree with the games selection. I can think of plenty of lightweight X11 games in the Debian repo that I'd rather have than volleyball or TuxPuck. (XBill and Koules for example - lots more action in those.)