alt Hacker NewsMy 5 year old laptop runs a lot faster as well.
Linux was designed to run on potatoes and has very little bloat over the years. The UX isn't terribly worse on fairly old hardware.
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MarsIronPI • yesterday at 9:07 PM
> Linux was designed to run on potatoes and has very little bloat over the years. I think it's more that it was designed in the 80s-90s for hardware at the time, and hasn't added bloat or "requirements" since then. So as computers have gotten more capable Linux takes less of the overall capacity.
immibis • yesterday at 8:08 PM
Linux has plenty of bloat. But it's your bloat. You get the power to slice through it how you want and nobody will stop you.
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charcircuit • yesterday at 9:00 PM
>Linux was designed to run on potatoes
This is factually not true.
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Quote: very little bloat over the years
You should try Haiku, and read about its package virtual file system, Linux in comparison will forever after that look like a bloated hog.