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. -- uname -rsvp Linux 5.11.22-100.fc32.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed May 19 18:58:25 UTC 2021 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
