Subj : Re: Linux gaming on low end PC's?
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : pyrewyrm
Date : Fri Mar 28 2025 14:50:12

 pF> Single-core IBM-branded Thinkpads like the T43 started getting sluggish
 pF> with Windows 7 (They came with XP). They ran lubuntu just fine, with
 pF> lightweight app choices and LXDE. I think the install only needed 512 mb
 pF> or RAM? Mine idled using 192 mb.

I would imagine taking a single-core XP machine and going to 7 would not be great. I can even see a many of the moderately nice visuals linux distros today might not perform well on such a machine.

But I struggle to see how a comtemporary linux version of either XP or 7 would perform worse on any machine. Or many distros from ten years later even would likely still be as least as smooth, barring some hardware requirement (ie a given standard of integrated graphics).

Hence my interest - No given system (no matter how much I like it) is the end all/be all/do all. Linux covers this largely by drowning you in options to suit every conceivable need Linux can support. But I was hoping to see a case where Windows was genuinely better than a fairly-picked linux distro in terms of performance. If only to say I saw it or to truly know an upside to Windows. At best, it might reveal some aspect of my coming complete divorce from Windows this Oct that I need to account for before the proverbial court proceedings are finalized on the day Win10 EOLs.

I was even hoping perhaps there would be something interesting to test out. The upside to the Toughbooks is the hot-swappable drive caddies. I can jump between operating systems in the time it takes to shutdown and bootup again. So if there was something in the story I could actually test, I was interested to give it a go.

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