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[Plasma][Sway][MATE][Aqua][Openbox] My five desktops, across four laptops (sopuli.xyz)
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Over the past decade or so, I've managed to accumulate four laptops:

Garnet

  • Model: HP 17-ca0003na
  • OS: openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • Desktop: KDE Plasma (Wayland)
  • Year: 2019

Garnet

Amethyst

  • Model: ThinkPad T400
  • OS: Arch Linux
  • Desktop: Sway (Wayland)
  • Year: 2007

Amethyst

Pearl

  • Model: MacBook A1181
  • OS: Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard"
  • Desktop: Aqua (Quartz)
  • Year: 2007

Pearl 1

  • OS: crunchbang++ 12
  • Desktop: Openbox (X11)

Pearl 2

LapisLazuli

  • Model: Acer Aspire 5742z
  • OS: Fedora 38
  • Desktop: MATE (X11)
  • Year: 2009

LapisLazuli

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[–] Lemmyin 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Love seeing the older machines! I’ve got a pile of old machines too and they rock. They are slow but you know what to expect and you tolerate it because the machine has earned it. Much like a grand parent 🫣

[–] hellfire103@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Strangely, on Pearl, the brand new Linux with brand new software actually runs faster and cooler than OSX.

There was also a period of about two years where Amethyst was more powerful than Garnet, although I would blame this on Garnet trying to run Windows 10 with only 4GB of RAM while Amethyst had 8GB and ran Linux Mint.

I tolerate slowness, but I also usually manage to reduce it to the point where it's not a problem anymore.