I had to wait until I was 28 to install Linux, (RedHat). But to be fair, personal computers as we know them today didn’t exist either.
Edit to add: for the past 2 years or so, I’ve been running Kinonite. I often get poked at by other Fedora users because they think it’s either “too hard” or that it doesn’t give them total control of their install because they have some super odd configueration confection that they just can’t live without. Or they believe flatpaks and appImages are too slow to open - I’m still trying to figure out how they can notice a possible 1/2 second.
So I just tell them I am old and I have compiled my share of kernels and wander through the rpm hells of middle earth. And I no longer want to be bothered. Then they say that Atomics are good for “old people”
If you don’t have NASA hardware, it’s noticeably slower.
I say that having an Intel Xeon E5-2650 v4 (Broadwell) with 12C24T @ 1.20 GHz (min) to 2.90 GHz (max), an NVIDIA GP106 (GeForce GTX 1060 [Pascal]) with 3 GB VRAM, and 16 GB DDR4 RAM with ZRAM (100%, 16 GB extra, Zstd) and 16 GB of disk swap for hibernation.
Really. I’ve run things like KDE or COSMIC Atomic, (COSMIC is actually pretty sweet on this one), on a 128Gb SSD, 8Gb shared DDR4, Celeron J3355, and whatever crappy Intel video chip it’s got. It’s my distro fun box and let’s see if I can break this install box. With a heavier weight DE, like KDE or Gnome, there can be a slight lag of perhaps a second when opening multiple programs. Or running math heavy stuff like CAD and a browser that’s been open all day.
My “new” mini I got last spring, is much faster with a Ryzen 5 with the Radon 760M onboard video and 16Gb of DDR5. There is no lag that I can decern opening multiple programs under Kinonite 45 of course.
I had to wait until I was 28 to install Linux, (RedHat). But to be fair, personal computers as we know them today didn’t exist either.
Edit to add: for the past 2 years or so, I’ve been running Kinonite. I often get poked at by other Fedora users because they think it’s either “too hard” or that it doesn’t give them total control of their install because they have some super odd configueration confection that they just can’t live without. Or they believe flatpaks and appImages are too slow to open - I’m still trying to figure out how they can notice a possible 1/2 second.
So I just tell them I am old and I have compiled my share of kernels and wander through the rpm hells of middle earth. And I no longer want to be bothered. Then they say that Atomics are good for “old people”
If you don’t have NASA hardware, it’s noticeably slower.
I say that having an Intel Xeon E5-2650 v4 (Broadwell) with 12C24T @ 1.20 GHz (min) to 2.90 GHz (max), an NVIDIA GP106 (GeForce GTX 1060 [Pascal]) with 3 GB VRAM, and 16 GB DDR4 RAM with ZRAM (100%, 16 GB extra, Zstd) and 16 GB of disk swap for hibernation.
Really. I’ve run things like KDE or COSMIC Atomic, (COSMIC is actually pretty sweet on this one), on a 128Gb SSD, 8Gb shared DDR4, Celeron J3355, and whatever crappy Intel video chip it’s got. It’s my distro fun box and let’s see if I can break this install box. With a heavier weight DE, like KDE or Gnome, there can be a slight lag of perhaps a second when opening multiple programs. Or running math heavy stuff like CAD and a browser that’s been open all day.
My “new” mini I got last spring, is much faster with a Ryzen 5 with the Radon 760M onboard video and 16Gb of DDR5. There is no lag that I can decern opening multiple programs under Kinonite 45 of course.
I don’t know, maybe I just have more patience.