[kwlug-disc] AMD Laptops and Radeon with Ubuntu?

[Mark Steffen]

My 2 cents:

I bought an Acer laptop a year ago with an AMD APU - the A10-8700P Carrizo
generation.  I bumped the ram up to 16 gigs and tossed in a 256 GB Samsung
840 pro I had laying around.  Ran Ubuntu (and Kali) amazingly, especially
after installing the AMD graphics drivers (though I did use the proprietary
ones from AMDs site).  The laptop itself was cheap; under $500 refurb from
Canada Computers.  Though the extra RAM (it came with 8gig which is likely
plenty anyway) and SSD (came with a 1TB 5400rpm spinner) obviously add to
that.  Only complaint about it was the generally cheap plastic construction
and 1366x768 resolution.  Tolerable if you are putting it on a laptop stand
and adding a second display to it though.

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On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 10:51 AM, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 2:29 PM, B. S. <bs27975 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > You might also look into the tab suspending addons, as available. Speed
> > increase / memory footprint difference has been astounding. On Chrome I
> use
> > 'The Great Suspender' (dratted stupid unintuitive names!)
> > https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspender/
> klbibkeccnjlkjkiokjodocebajanakg
> >
> > Pale Moon sometimes has Firefox addon compatibility issues - their site
> and
> > forums point you to alternatives and workarounds where known. The only
> > working equivalent to the addon above is 'BarTab Heavy'
> > https://github.com/philikon/BarTab/wiki/FAQ - which I ended up
> uninstalling.
> > Firefox may have better equivalents. Like I said the difference in speed
> and
> > memory footprint is astonishing.
>
> Found Auto Unload Tab, and installed it. Seems to do the trick after a
> day of use, with Firefox's resident set staying at 1.8GB, rather than
> over 4GB as previous.
>
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-unload-tab/
>
> Other candidates that I have not tried are:
>
> Suspend Tab
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/suspend-tab/
>
> Unload Tab
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/unloadtab/
>
> A common complaint about these is that they don't preserve the
> tab/window state when Firefox restarted. I use Session Manager and
> tell it to save the state every half hour or so, and therefore if
> Firefox crashes, or I kill it for any reason, I tell it to load the
> exact tabs I had previously.
>
>
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