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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Shocking speed difference, Ubuntu vs. Linux Mint, Snap vs.
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Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 03:01:53 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-03-21, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
> On 2025-03-21 1:20 p.m., RonB wrote:
>> On 2025-03-21, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>> On 2025-03-20 10:57 p.m., pothead wrote:
>>>> On 2025-03-20, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 09:31:45 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> If anyone out there is a fan of Snaps, then there is a chance they might
>>>>>> not be fans of Ubuntu itself. The idea of switching out the GNU tools
>>>>>> that work perfectly well in favour of rewritten Rust ones is just
>>>>>> idiotic. I would trust the people who produced the GNU tools decades ago
>>>>>> a lot more than the filthy hippies who will rewrite them in Rust for a
>>>>>> theoretical benefit in regards to memory.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've been running Ubuntu as my main machine. I'm not a fan of GNOME but I
>>>>> can live with it.  I can also like with snap, flatpak, and AppImage.
>>>>> Brave is the only app that shows up both in the snap and flatpak list.
>>>>> There isn't a lot of consistency. Firefox and dotnet are snaps, Vim is a
>>>>> flatpak.
>>>>
>>>> I've been running MXLinux for a long time, years in fact, but I tried out
>>>> the latest version of LinuxMint Cinnamon  and on the same hardware it is
>>>> much, much faster than MXLinux.
>>>> Especially with regards to loading browsers and surfing.
>>>> It was painfully slow under MXLinux. Browser didn't matter.
>>>> It's not even close.
>>>> I wasn't a fan of LinuxMint in the past but I sure am now.
>>>>
>>>> It's come a long way baby!
>>>
>>> I'm a fan now. It made the pathetic the old hardware feel relatively
>>> new. Its 5250U processor wasn't even good at the time, but it at least
>>> feels adequate eight years later.
>> 
>> The 5250U is faster than the 5300U that's in my Dell Latitude E7450 laptop.
>> But they're pretty closely related. I'm happy with the performance of the
>> E7450 (I do have 16 GBs of RAM, so that might help.)
>
> The Mac's got 8GB with no possibility of upgrading it. I can replace the 
> 128GB it came with, I even have the adapter for it, but Mint doesn't 
> even fill up the 128GB. At 25% wear, I think I can run it for a number 
> of years before needing to switch the storage.

The MacBook Air that I haven't yet sold (2015 version) is also stuck at 8 
GBs. I can't remember what CPU it uses (it looks like a 5250U like yours) by 
the specs I find online. It's also at 128 GBs. 

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