Subj : Re: A new computer setup
To   : Tracker1
From : Dennisk
Date : Fri Aug 21 2020 08:39:00

-=> Tracker1 wrote to Dennisk <=-

 Tr> On 8/19/2020 8:27 PM, Dennisk wrote:
 >
 > Mine is 10 years old.  No good for new games now, but for everything else,
its

 > find.
 >
 > If you aren't playing games, I think you can easily go 10 years without
having

 > to upgrade, especially if you are using Linux.

 Tr> I think it may also come down to what you are doing, how patient you
 Tr> are and if you've had exposure to a faster computer.  I recently
 Tr> upgraded. My prior desktop was around 5yo at the time... I was issued a
 Tr> work laptop about 2 years ago that did a few work things faster than my
 Tr> desktop.  This drove a desire to get those gains on my home system.
 Tr> Since upgrading my home system everything feels painfully slow.

 Tr> If it's all you know, and *it* hasn't changed, then it's easy to keep
 Tr> using it.  If you've experienced better/faster it isn't always that
 Tr> easy.  Of course another change vs. a few years ago is that what I work
 Tr> on often requires several servers/services in the background on my
 Tr> computer, usually spun up in Docker containers.  These all take
 Tr> resources and on even a few year old hardware this becomes a
 Tr> significant slowdown.  DB (pg or ms-sql), Redis, Rabbit, and a handful
 Tr> of things you're working on and it's noticeable.

There was a significant upgrade when I moved the OS to an SSD, but apart from
that I don't notice a difference between my home machine, and the new machine I
use at work.  Maybe again, the tasks are different, but perhaps the only
noticable thing is that programs take touch longer to start.  But as what I
mostly am using now is a web browser, Syncterm, Doom level editor, Emacs and a
Terminal, perhaps that is why.  I would feel the age if I compared something
resource heavy, like video editing, but I do that so, so rarely.

But there definately is something here.  You couldn't get away in 2000 with a
1990s computer, or even in 2010 with a 2000s one.

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