2018-03-22 1:44 GMT-06:00 Milan Crha <mcrha@xxxxxxxxxx>:
On Thu, 2018-03-22 at 04:40 +0000, Peter Robinson wrote:
> ... to improve performance on low resource devices ...
Hi,
I only recently, like three weeks ago, had been asked to update Fedora
on a very old Dell notebook. I installed there Fedora 20 years ago and
when I've been asked to get there a newer Firefox, because that ancient
doesn't work for sites like Facebook (do not ask, it's not my machine),
then I decided to update to the recent Fedora 27. Then the user gets
all the security fixes and so on, right? Everyone wins. After
successful 'distro-sync', which was quite impressive on its own, the
gdm didn't boot quicker than in like 5 minutes, when I was lucky.
Booting to GNOME took even longer. The rescue mode booted quicker, but
that's not the production. There were caught some ABRT reports about
kernel crash, but it was just about: "hey, kernel crashed, but you've
bad luck, because from this crash kernel developers won't get anything,
thus I'll not let you report it". What are such ABRT reports good for?
The ancient Fedora 20 didn't have this issue, it just worked. Long
story short, I spent half night and quite few hours the next day trying
fresh install of Fedora 27, 26, 25, but none worked that well as Fedora
20, thus I resulted in getting the ancient Fedora 20 from the archives,
install it and bring Firefox straight from Mozilla. The task
accomplished, but...
I a computer without a SSD Plasma and Gnome Shell do not work well, so in the current state os those desktop enviroments the page also should recomend to use a SSD disck, is not use a alternative desktop like Cinnamon or a more clasical option like Mate.
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