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[Plasma][Sway][MATE][Aqua][Openbox] My five desktops, across four laptops (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Over the past decade or so, I've managed to accumulate four laptops:

Garnet

Model: HP 17-ca0003na
OS: openSUSE Tumbleweed
Desktop: KDE Plasma (Wayland)
Year: 2019

Garnet

Amethyst

Model: ThinkPad T400
OS: Arch Linux
Desktop: Sway (Wayland)
Year: 2007

Amethyst

Pearl

Model: MacBook A1181
OS: Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard"
Desktop: Aqua (Quartz)
Year: 2007

Pearl 1

OS: crunchbang++ 12
Desktop: Openbox (X11)

Pearl 2

LapisLazuli

Model: Acer Aspire 5742z
OS: Fedora 38
Desktop: MATE (X11)
Year: 2009

LapisLazuli

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Strangely, on Pearl, the brand new Linux with brand new software actually runs faster and cooler than OSX.

There was also a period of about two years where Amethyst was more powerful than Garnet, although I would blame this on Garnet trying to run Windows 10 with only 4GB of RAM while Amethyst had 8GB and ran Linux Mint.

I tolerate slowness, but I also usually manage to reduce it to the point where it's not a problem anymore.