Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On 30/12/2024 22:01, 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.

 Memory can be an issue, though.
 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.
 This is because software became memory hogs. Thunderbird, Firefox with a bunch of windows, and LO. After a week, they eat memory.
 The other reason is that Nvidia had stopped supporting my card, and nouveau was not up to the task. I changed to AMD video.
 The older machine I used for a time for guests. Works fine, its power is fine, and is over 10 year old.
 

My Nvidia equipped  machine is my interim server. (Pi4B coming soon). Around 10 years old now
Intel onboard graphics now is sufficient for my desktop.
I too had to increase from 8GB mostly because massive loads of shit written in python are memory gobblers.
As is 3GB dedicated to a WINDOWS XP VM.
HP EliteDesk 800 G2 SFF Quad Core i5-6500 is what it says it is
Its about 5 years old now. There are tons of this class of machine going for peanuts everywhere. They were sold to small businesses as office machines. In fact its the cheapest way to buy that processor!
I cant recommend this enough for Linux. I cant remember if I had to mess with the bios to get the right boot, but once it booted into the live CD it was utterly plain sailing.
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