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People need to try some old systems, dos or windows 3 or even XP. Responsiveness does matter, a lot

zozbot234 6y ago
A modern-day, lightweight Linux system is just as responsive as those, in my experience. Often more so, because the systems you mention were often limited by slow hard-disk or even floppy-disk access, whereas modern Linux tries its best to cache absolutely everything in RAM.
- entropicdrifter 6y ago
  Even "heavyweight" DEs can pull this off. I've been running Manjaro with KDE on my Pinebook Pro and it's been overall a snappier experience than I had even hoped to get out of what is essentially a four year old phone (with only 4GB of RAM) in a laptop form factor. Faster than Android or Windows 10, for sure
- asdfman123 6y ago
  Yeah, if you notice your laptop is getting slower and slower, it's not the hardware. Try installing Ubuntu and it will feel new again.
  - patagurbon 6y ago
    If you have other devices though, you may perceive it as getting slower. An older laptop with an HDD absolutely chugs compared to an SSD. That's been my experience with older devices, my newer ones spoil me on any OS
    - Junk_Collector 6y ago
      Running old software on new hardware is by far the best user experience that I've had. Everything is blazing fast to the point of feeling instantaneous. Unfortunately it's getting harder and harder to keep things running with various licensing schemes and whatnot. Hell Microsoft even keeps breaking my old Office install with windows 10 updates forcing me to constantly fix it because they want me to update to their office 360 offering. All that said, both the hardware and software stack are getting a little silly even at the low level. You can send a keypress around the world as a data packet faster than you can send it to your monitor now a days.
      - zozbot234 6y ago
        Running up-to-date FLOSS software is an even better experience, in my view. It doesn't even get all that much slower or more RAM-intensive over time - certainly nowhere near as much as windows 10 or Office does! Of course you need to choose your software stack wisely if you're looking for that "lightning-fast" experience.

A modern-day, lightweight Linux system is just as responsive as those, in my experience. Often more so, because the systems you mention were often limited by slow hard-disk or even floppy-disk access, whereas modern Linux tries its best to cache absolutely everything in RAM.

entropicdrifter 6y ago
Even "heavyweight" DEs can pull this off. I've been running Manjaro with KDE on my Pinebook Pro and it's been overall a snappier experience than I had even hoped to get out of what is essentially a four year old phone (with only 4GB of RAM) in a laptop form factor. Faster than Android or Windows 10, for sure
asdfman123 6y ago
Yeah, if you notice your laptop is getting slower and slower, it's not the hardware. Try installing Ubuntu and it will feel new again.
- patagurbon 6y ago
  If you have other devices though, you may perceive it as getting slower. An older laptop with an HDD absolutely chugs compared to an SSD. That's been my experience with older devices, my newer ones spoil me on any OS
  - Junk_Collector 6y ago
    Running old software on new hardware is by far the best user experience that I've had. Everything is blazing fast to the point of feeling instantaneous. Unfortunately it's getting harder and harder to keep things running with various licensing schemes and whatnot. Hell Microsoft even keeps breaking my old Office install with windows 10 updates forcing me to constantly fix it because they want me to update to their office 360 offering. All that said, both the hardware and software stack are getting a little silly even at the low level. You can send a keypress around the world as a data packet faster than you can send it to your monitor now a days.
    - zozbot234 6y ago
      Running up-to-date FLOSS software is an even better experience, in my view. It doesn't even get all that much slower or more RAM-intensive over time - certainly nowhere near as much as windows 10 or Office does! Of course you need to choose your software stack wisely if you're looking for that "lightning-fast" experience.