Post B2DmLAPJ3c3ppEfBku by tg9541@mas.to
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 (DIR) Post #B2DjcABArGucB9Sx16 by matthew@social.retroedge.tech
       2026-01-12T20:59:23.376268Z
       
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       This is a customer's computer. He's been quite happy with a refurbished Dell Vostro 230 desktop for years with Ubuntu Mate. He only got it to me because there was a power outage while he was applying updates and he wasn't sure how to fix the broken package state. I fixed that, then upgraded from Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04, as the Firefox snap was broken. The upgrade to 24.04 fixed that. Works fine now. Intel Core 2 Duo still kicking and in active use. #Linux #Ubuntu #MATE
       
 (DIR) Post #B2DmLAPJ3c3ppEfBku by tg9541@mas.to
       2026-01-12T21:26:21Z
       
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       @matthew It's amazing that an old Core 2 Duo is still sufficient to run a modern web browser. A Pentium M might also still work (at least one clocked at 2GHz).
       
 (DIR) Post #B2DmVyf54EmUaBCFMW by matthew@social.retroedge.tech
       2026-01-12T21:32:04.744635Z
       
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       It may struggle on larger resource heavy websites, but customer has been fine with it. The Core 2 Duo line can still do quite a lot. It was my focus when I first started doing "RetroEdge Tech". #Intel #Core2Duo #RetroEdge
       
 (DIR) Post #B2Dw3vHJ3Jr7WRKzBI by rivercityrandom@bitbang.social
       2026-01-12T23:18:31Z
       
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       @matthew @tg9541 I'm going to guess the video card is doing a lot of heavy lifting on the web video playback decoding. I've run modern Youtube on a Core 2 Duo laptop with Intel graphics and it struggles above 480p unless I rip the video with yt-dlp and play it in vlc.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2Dx3j1WiM8nTBQUbI by rivercityrandom@bitbang.social
       2026-01-12T23:29:38Z
       
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       @matthew @tg9541 I should reiterate that the integrated graphics in Intel chips of the Core 2 era were pretty crappy even for the time. Even throwing in a cheap AMD or Nvidia graphics card like the customer's HD 4670 will drastically improve both 2d and 3d graphics performance and make a difference in how snappy your OS and apps feel.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2Ft4Uw8Z0r2ZKwEa0 by tg9541@mas.to
       2026-01-13T18:57:55Z
       
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       @rivercityrandom It's true, the following generations of Intel integrated graphics were much more performant. The old graphics cores integrated in the Pentium M and Atom chips had one advantage over the dedicated graphics cards I had used before: it was much easier to get a good driver for them, especially under Linux.@matthew