* Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels
@ 2014-10-26 21:48 99% ` Alan McKinnon
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From: Alan McKinnon @ 2014-10-26 21:48 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On 26/10/2014 23:23, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
>> Must be nice; my laptop is so old that it boots slowly regardless of my
>> > choice of init system.
> You should try getting it an SSD. It brings back old laptops from the
> grave: most desktop software has been I/O bound for some time, and
> with a fast SSD, even an old laptop can become usuable again.
+1
It used to be that more RAM was the easiest way to get performance gains
out of not-so-bleeding-edge anymore hardware.
Nowadays, most machine tend to have enough RAM (unless the owner made a
silly decision at purchase time), but an SSD is an instant, gigantic
performance upgrade.
This here laptop for instance - once the bios screen gets out of the way
it's 8 seconds to a dm login screen, all due to the SSD. Firefox takes
much longer than that to re-open all the tabs from last session, not
much I can do about that sadly. This damn thing is so fast I tend forget
just how fast it is, and remember when dealing with issues on my user's
Ubuntu workstations :-)
--
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
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