Post #2690580

2026-04-29 00:11 UTC

@gangrif@social.undrground.org Haha, yeah that's what I am expecting... The spare Minecraft laptop has 2.2 GHz Intel i5, with 8 GB RAM The music laptop is 1.35 GHz AMD with 4GB RAM

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@buckfiftyseven@mastodon.social 2026-04-29 00:30

@ClancyParliament@mastodon.online @gangrif@social.undrground.org I have an i5-4460 tower with 8g and a sata ssd. It runs a tad slower than a modern 8c/16t machine with more memory and nvme ssd, but it's not bad. I can run any distro on it. When I fire up older 2c 4g machines I'll stick to more lean distros and guis. Cachy with hyprland or niri works well. But as other's note, it's about style and choice

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@Amgine@mamot.fr 2026-04-29 04:38

@ClancyParliament@mastodon.online @gangrif@social.undrground.org One small note: AMD supports linux by releasing its various drivers compiled for linux. This helps AMD devices be as performant running linux as running Microsoft. Distrowatch.com is a useful place for locating some of the many many flavours of Linux; and you can search for mixes which suit your goals. The graphics/windowmanager is not part of Linux, yet it is what everyone is deliberately not talking about here. 'Pretty' costs performance; try'em all and see!

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