On Wed, 2022-04-27 at 19:10 +0000, Cătălin George Feștilă wrote:
I read this article
https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/27/fedora_starts_to_simplify_linux/
The question is whether we can still use old laptops. I have an HP
6710b and it works very well at the moment with Fedora 36.
I think the answer's going to depend on the age.
I have a 2007 era laptop that still works, though its battery doesn't,
and is painfully burdened by modern Gnome. But managed Gnome from way
back then quite acceptably. It has a no-longer supported NVidia
graphics chipset (NVidia removed drivers for that model some time ago).
Fedora on it is not feasible anymore (unless using one of the really
un-featured graphical systems or just plain text mode), but it's still
okay with Linux Mint - its Mate implementation is far less CPU heavy,
and doesn't glitch graphically like Fedora's does. My impression of
things like Mate or traditional Gnome on Fedora is that they're using
the full-blown Gnome 3 and just styling it to look in the old manner.
It's *very* old, virtually obsolete in computing terms. Yet, it's fine
for some things. It's wasteful to just chuck it away, and I don't have
the money to just buy a new one. I can certainly understand a 2007
device being considered far too old to bother with, even if I consider
more recent OSs to have become too bloated (inefficient) as the real
problem. A 1.73 GHz dual CPU with 1 gig of RAM (or I may have upgraded
it to 2 gigs) isn't exactly a low spec machine.
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