Fuck me this is quick

[Wij]

I bought an old Thinkpad T400 (Core2 Duo @ 2.5GHz, 3GB RAM) to play around with. I've put Ubuntu 12.10 Beta on it and am browsing in Chromium.

The speed the pages load (over Wifi not cable) and render is the best I've ever seen. Nigh on instant.

This machine is nowhere near as powerful as my main PC (i5, 8GB) but for web browsing it eats it for breakfast. Amazing what a difference software can make.

 

[MYstIC G]

I run our spare office (only gets used say once a month) entirely on our old main office kit running Ubuntu, it's amazing what Linux can do, especially since Ubuntu is hardly lightweight.

 

[soze]

I have never got the hang of Linux my job does not afford me the time to play and at home I just want something that works so I try it for a few week the give up. Maybe a second machine is the answer so I can try to learn more on Linux.

 

[Cadelin]

Why is this surprising?! That is how computers are supposed to work.

 

[MYstIC G]

I have never got the hang of Linux my job does not afford me the time to play and at home I just want something that works so I try it for a few week the give up. Maybe a second machine is the answer so I can try to learn more on Linux.

I found for me that a second HDD was the way, less space and same experience with hardware that I was used to.

 

[Jeros]

Using LXDE on Mint at the mo and it moves super fast.

Moving to Arch when I have enough knowlage.

 

[MYstIC G]

Arch was fucking horrible in my experience, I found Gentoo easier (which should be impossible).

 

[Yaka]

arch is more for peeps that know thier ways around the quirks if you can call it that of linux.

either way its suprising despite being considered the most user friendly of linux builds ubuntu hasnt made the impact they inteded to make. considering the average user just spends times on fb,twitter, youtube etc

 

[MYstIC G]

It's more than quirks, arch has it's own way of doing things imho that just muddy the water. It lands in that horrible middle ground between "reading everything and doing by hand" and "more power for those who use linux too much"

 

[TdC]

It lands in that horrible middle ground between "reading everything and doing by hand" and "more power for those who use linux too much"

err, but reading everything and doing by hand gives you that power?

in an aside: Debian Wheezy here on main workstation and reserve lappy. It's nice.

 

[MYstIC G]

That's my point, I'd rather gentoo than arch.