On 26/10/2014 23:23, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >> Must be nice; my laptop is so old that it boots slowly regardless of my >> > choice of init system. > You should try getting it an SSD. It brings back old laptops from the > grave: most desktop software has been I/O bound for some time, and > with a fast SSD, even an old laptop can become usuable again.
+1 It used to be that more RAM was the easiest way to get performance gains out of not-so-bleeding-edge anymore hardware. Nowadays, most machine tend to have enough RAM (unless the owner made a silly decision at purchase time), but an SSD is an instant, gigantic performance upgrade. This here laptop for instance - once the bios screen gets out of the way it's 8 seconds to a dm login screen, all due to the SSD. Firefox takes much longer than that to re-open all the tabs from last session, not much I can do about that sadly. This damn thing is so fast I tend forget just how fast it is, and remember when dealing with issues on my user's Ubuntu workstations :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
