[kwlug-disc] Open source laptop hardware

[Chris Frey]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 12:46:43PM -0500, Doug Moen wrote:
> Sounds like Debian is too slow and bloated for this hardware. I bet
> that Plan 9 would really fly on it. Plan 9 is from the right era and
> there's been no large scale effort to make it a thousand times slower
> and require a thousand times as much memory, as has happened with
> Linux distros.

This may have been in jest, but boy howdy, is it real.

I'm still running Debian Buster 10, and recently due to security updates
and end-of-life requiring the change, Firefox was updated from 78.15esr
to 91.5esr.  Watching youtube is now a 100% CPU grinding, fan blowing,
choppy video, sluggish UI affair on my poor Thinkpad T510.

I kinda long for that bygone era.

- Chris