Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On 2024-12-31 00:18, Andrzej Matuch wrote:

On 2024-12-30 17:01, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2024-12-30 14:40, Andrzej Matuch wrote:

On 2024-12-29 23:28, rbowman wrote:

On Sun, 29 Dec 2024 17:06:31 -0500, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
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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.

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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.

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Nowadays, speed is only an issue if you're playing games or encoding videos. Otherwise, the machines we were running even around 2010 should be more than sufficient for the majority of people and their use of the web, social media and e-mail. Sure, it won't load as fast as a machine from this decade, but it's not the kind of difference as people suffered through when some were running Pentiums and others still used a 386.

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Memory can be an issue, though.
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I had to change to another machine for two reasons. One, that 8 GiB was not enough, machine was swapping actively, and the motherboard was maxed.

 I found this to be an issue even with the new MacBook Air M1. Regardless of what Apple claims, 8GB on Apple silicon is not like 16GB on a PC. 8GB was great in 2010, not in 2021.
 

This is because software became memory hogs. Thunderbird, Firefox with a bunch of windows, and LO. After a week, they eat memory.

 I imagine that you never closed those programs. Do they have known memory leaks?

No, but they don't seem to have a proper memory cleaning strategy. Probably fragmentation.

 

The other reason is that Nvidia had stopped supporting my card, and nouveau was not up to the task. I changed to AMD video.
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The older machine I used for a time for guests. Works fine, its power is fine, and is over 10 year old.

 As far as I know, Nouveau has full support for NVIDIA GPUs into the 8xx range. Anything after that doesn't get full support because the firmware is closed. What was the card you were using?

MSI N9500GT-MS1G-OC, says the cardbox.
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Cheers, Carlos.