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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2024 09:22:05 +0000
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On 30/12/2024 04:28, 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.
+1

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