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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux-hating Dimdows concern trolls, listen up
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 07:55:52 -0500
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-hh wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

> On 12/18/24 1:31 PM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>> -hh wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
>> 
>>> On 12/18/24 9:23 AM, CrudeSausage wrote:
>>>>
>>>> <who cares?>
>>>
>>> Linux's lightweight OS characteristics make it quite suitable for any
>>> old hardware which it can run on, particularly when the user
>>> expectations are basic (eg, web surfing, email, newsgroups).
>> 
>> You left out audio/video/photo editing, screen-casting, software development,
>> painting, MIDI, pen-testing, servers of all kinds, ...
>
> Sure, because most users leave those out too, as the primary use case 
> that this is about are hand-me-downs.
>
>> Much of with is manageable on old hardware, as well.
>
> Contingent on just what level of task which one is asking to do:  old 
> hadware can render 640 by 480 video without being too slow in the UI, 
> but to do 4K editing within the same day is beyond the hardware's 
> capability, regardless of OS.  Sure, one may get to "but it will run!" 
> but the workflow is a {fix a frame & let it run overnight} crawl.
>
>> Years ago I installed Linux on a single-core Acer laptop. I could run
>> SolidWorks on it in a VM on that little shit-box. It was my main laptop before
>> the Corporation started handing out decent hardware.
>
> A Single core CPU would be more like "decades ago", as I can recall 
> having a dual core CPU back in 2006.

I bought the single-core because it was cheap, especially with the Office Depot
discount.

> And its not merely that some software could be made to run:  the 
> question was how long to render the project, and for the likes of 
> Solidworks, doing how many discrete points in the mesh.
>
> As I'd mentioned a week or two back, I had a FEA team working on a hot 
> project where the workstations would crash every ~4 days of runtime.

Bully for you.

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