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[–] 53 points 10 months ago (6 children)

The terminal feels like such a haven for me, for its responsiveness. Windows gets slower and slower with each update. Even my Linux DEs are slow now because I’m hardware poor. The terminal is the only app that stays ahead of my typing.

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Oof. That must be a single core laptop from 2010 or something, which if true, that sucks.

    I have a 13 year old computer around here that had no problems with LMDE6 when last I fired it up. It was relatively high spec when new which takes some of the edge off, but I never had an input lag problem anywhere except maybe badly-written websites.

    Just how limited is your computer?

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Yeah. I have a 2011 Macbook Pro with a dual core i7 running Arch and Plasma, and while it's obviously nowhere near as quick as my M2 Macbook Air, it's still a perfectly respectable machine. Last week I also put Arch on a ThinkPad T410 with a dual core i5. I wouldn't want it as my main computer, but it chugs along ok.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    have you not used windows 11?

    file explorer now takes half a second to open a subfolder, more if within a OneDrive directory. I went back to Win10 because of that. it literally broke my workflow and prevented me from being able to do my job effectively

    I wasn't the only one at the company that saw this behavior either

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I haven't used Windows in earnest since Win 7. No wonder they want to force people to upgrade to new hardware.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    I'm on a $4000 computer from 2024 lol, with an NVME SSD. it ain't the hardware that's the issue in my case

    but yeah, windows runs like shit now. everything is slow. there's bloatware. nothing just works anymore (not that it all just worked in the past, but at least some of it did)

    even fucking notepad has started crashing on me sometimes

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