[kwlug-disc] Open source laptop hardware

[Mikalai Birukou]

>> 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.

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zero-days. A-a-ah. :-)

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