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(DIR) Post #9ss7VYpkd6PMR2R6nY by cosullivan@mastodon.sdf.org
2020-03-10T18:04:25Z
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#Linux/#BSD users: Ever get to the point where the conundrum is "upgrade the OS" or "buy a newer PC and install the newer OS" ?
(DIR) Post #9ss8WJaiszLpPCKY52 by silver@fedimaker.space
2020-03-10T18:15:49Z
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@cosullivan A lot of new linux releases run like garbage on older computers but can pretty easily be tuned to perform better. Eg: I dropped the boot time on my son's ubuntu 16.04 core2quad from 6 minutes to less than one by telling it to skip trying to load a hibernation state from the swap partition in the grub config.
(DIR) Post #9ssAyuj0cKXWadyG0m by ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org
2020-03-10T18:43:21Z
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@cosullivan Never reached that point. Modern Linuxes are obviously not made for old machines and assume a certain CPU capacity.This being said, a lot of distros are still perfectly usable on old machines: Slackware is one and I have heard a lot of good things about Lubuntu and others.BSD, on the other hand, seems to run very well on underpowered machines and NetBSD is always a good choice, especially if you like tinkering.@silver
(DIR) Post #9ssKf7dhtIc0OSgyhs by TheOuterLinux@mastodon.social
2020-03-10T20:31:50Z
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@cosullivan I have a distro that people seem to claim will run on 20 year old computers, but it's more realistic to not go past 15. https://psychoslinux.gitlab.io. Most of the problem is people having an obsession with constantly needing to update every 5 minutes, as if gaining a new version number is equal to points and GNU/Linux systems have lots of packages so updates are always available. I have a feeling there's some sort of addictive/gambling-like psychology to it. Use Debian/Devuan and be happy.