Re: Linux-hating Dimdows concern trolls, listen up

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:

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<who cares?>

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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.
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.
-hh