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From: "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
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On 2024-12-30 14:40, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
> On 2024-12-29 23:28, rbowman wrote:
>> On Sun, 29 Dec 2024 17:06:31 -0500, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
>>
>>> If I can use this laptop with Fedora on it until the machine inevitably
>>> kicks the bucket, I'll be happy. I don't like the idea of changing my
>>> hardware every three, four or even five years. If I can go ten with it,
>>> I'll be satisfied to retire it in favour of something new from Framework
>>> or System76.
>>
>> My Fedora box is a ten year old Dell with a 4th gen i5. I did get a 
>> little
>> snappier processor on eBay and added 8 GB or RAM and a SSD but I'm not
>> planning an upgrade. The only limitation is the only PCIe slot is in use
>> so the SSD is SATA rather than NVMe so it boots a little slower than the
>> Ryzen 7 Ubuntu box.  Considering it's been up 41 days that is not a big
>> deal.
> 
> Nowadays, speed is only an issue if you're playing games or encoding 
> videos. Otherwise, the machines we were running even around 2010 should 
> be more than sufficient for the majority of people and their use of the 
> web, social media and e-mail. Sure, it won't load as fast as a machine 
> from this decade, but it's not the kind of difference as people suffered 
> through when some were running Pentiums and others still used a 386.

Memory can be an issue, though.

I had to change to another machine for two reasons. One, that 8 GiB was 
not enough, machine was swapping actively, and the motherboard was maxed.

This is because software became memory hogs. Thunderbird, Firefox with a 
bunch of windows, and LO. After a week, they eat memory.

The other reason is that Nvidia had stopped supporting my card, and 
nouveau was not up to the task. I changed to AMD video.

The older machine I used for a time for guests. Works fine, its power is 
fine, and is over 10 year old.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.