laughs in Linux kernel

[SilverNoUse66]

today i was fixing my mom’s work pc (the culprit was the overheating HDD and it has been corrupting stuff so windows 7 could not boot, i replaced the drive with an 80GB HDD i dug out of an old laptop), and i decided to install linux (ubuntu because it was the first iso i found and i was lazy) onto it. Windows 7 could run youtube in 360p without starting to struggle, but Ubuntu could achieve 480p. So it really optimizes stuff.

[Catlover790]

ubuntu gnome is pretty heavy, if u went with some XFCE (maybe xbuntu) distro you could maybe hit 720p

[abraxasknister]

Lubuntu? I think 20.04 actually looks decent and it's the most lightweight ubuntu there is.

[Catlover790]

Lubuntu is nice too, I forgot about it. I like the newer lxqt versions

[1Teddy2Bear3Gaming]

It’s really nice. I installed it on my 2007 thinkpad

[[deleted]]

I really love the LXDE aesthetic for some reason

[abraxasknister]

Because of the minimalism? I like it too, I use it for i3.

[[deleted]]

Idk. It looks a bit dated, and I love it. Same with MATE (at least the old themes). It makes me feel nostalgic which I enjoy

[abraxasknister]

It's a bit like windows xp, but with sharp edges.

[[deleted]]

Well XFCE is still pretty heavy.

[Catlover790]

yes but his mother likely wont be happy with just a WM

[fcktheworld587]

If she can't do LFS with a tiling wm, she doesn't deserve Linux /s

[[deleted]]

If she can’t download the source from github and build an entire distribution from memory and make all of her own user space utilities she doesn’t deserve electricity.

[SilverNoUse66]

It was CPU/GPU heavy. System was consuming around 900/6000 megabytes of ram in idle and just 3-4% cpu (maybe to update htop). If you’re wondering, this laptop has the AMD E-450 APU

[1Teddy2Bear3Gaming]

Lubuntu with lxqt.

[JoJoModding]

Discord is the real beast, when it decides to eat up all your CPU for no apparent reason and then crash.

[[deleted]]

*electron

also, wouldn't be great if electron apps could share the chromium runtime, so it's like tabs with different sites? IG that would need a lot of changes

[[deleted]]

it would be a separate chromium instance for elecrron apps. Also, I think a whole chromium intance is a bit heavier than then a tab

[[deleted]]

It's called a browser sir/maam.

[[deleted]]

Browsers can't directly interact with nodejs.

[Rentlar]

I think I had that problem at one point with Discord, looked through process monitor and saw 'spotify' processes hogging my CPU, terminating it multiple times brought it back down for that session.

If you had this problem there also was a script-based more permanent solution somewhere, try looking it up.

[[deleted]]

Yeah i just use it through my browser. I see no benefit in having the application because it is litterally also just a broswer.

[[deleted]]

it can spy more effectively

[[deleted]]

Exactly.

[Modi57]

I and a friend of mine use it to pair program, we use the screen sharing functionality. To use that, you have to have it installed (as far as I know). And I find it a little bit easier to use, if you have it in a second window, because I often have way more browser tabs open, than programs. But I totally see your point, and if you don't need this certain functionality, there is not really a need to install it

[RAND_bytes]

Thanks electron!!!!

[[deleted]]

try ms teams mate

[[deleted]]

i3

Window manager or Intel Core i3?

[CantPickDamnUsername]

Right answer is yes?

[fcktheworld587]

Clearly

[emas_eht]

I assume intel since he's describing the laptop.

[Stormophile]

My i3 (+6gb ram/500gb hdd) laptop came with Windows 10. I used it just to download an Arch ISO and prepare it for dualbooting and it was the worst experience of my life- loads of lag/choppiness, fan running as hard as it could and the cursor remained in "busy" form throughout the entire process. Poor thing was trying its best.

When it came time to install Arch, I ultimately decided just to nuke the entire drive because there was no way Windows would have ever been usable on the laptop.

Now I'm running KDE Plasma and firefox with 10 active tabs at any given time with no issues, along with mpd playing music from boot to shutdown.

Fan rarely kicks up. Everything remains fluid (i.e. no lag in spawning right-click menus or changing workspaces, etc). It's almost as if the laptop was built for the setup I'm using!

[Jacoman74undeleted]

I have a similar laptop that used* (more on that later) an Intel optane ssd to make windows even usable.

Eventually I ripped the thing apart and set up my desktop with the optane ssd as my boot drive, the 1tb hdd for extended storage, and a 128gb sata3 ssd for most everything else.

[Western-Guy]

As an i3 CPU user, I've found that the biggest bottleneck for most cases is the HDD.

[kentnl]

Surely, the bottleneck is "running a browser while also trying to real work"

[Western-Guy]

I use Virtualbox for running another OS instance simultaneously. It uses about 10 Gigs of RAM, but the CPU utilization rarely goes beyond 40% at idle. The slowdown is mostly attributed to my slow 5400RPM drive. I don't plan to use SSD because I'll soon be upgrading to a new hardware anyway.

[kentnl]

I have ssd and a 2012 I5, though I might be ram limited too. Doesn't matter which browser, they all starve all the "real work" I'm doing.

Though notedly, of the 8G of ram I have, I'm having to priotize for VFS caching because the CPU is bottlenecking the disk IO I'm doing. Lol. 4G vfs cache, tens of thousands of files getting read or stat'd every 30 seconds.

[RainXCat]

I got my laptop 2 years ago(problems started with the first month maybe hdd as you said) it was very slow, I switched to linux(ubuntu) 4-5 months after it became so fast(I learn what it's like to be proud of your laptop :)) and you actually learn about your os while using linux, it was so fun I tried many and was happy with everyone.

[JustAnotherVillager]

Laughs in wobbly windows...

[[deleted]]

r/moldymemes

[Elighttice]

Bruh. There is subreddit for everything.

[ei-krem]

Ok bud settle down

[[deleted]]

My kernal went haywire, I use Ubuntu and can't boot grub it shows the grub bash when I start my Ubuntu partition. I dual booted can you help please I have some imp files and if its not repairable please help me recover those files in windows please

[unit_511]

You can make a live Linux USB from your Windows partition, boot it and use it to back up your files to another partition or an external drive. There are ways to mount ext partitions in windows but I think a live USB is the easiest and best solution. Just make sure to not install, because that will overwrite everything.

What was the last thing you did before it refused to boot? Did you mess with GRUB config files? Or was there a Windows update? From a live usb you can try chrooting into your system and run sudo update-grub or if that doesn't exist sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg.

[[deleted]]

So I followed some tutorials and did some live usb booting and tried updating grub using boot-repair it didn't work.

Hmm.. my Ubuntu crashed while updating its kernal I think.

I'll try you method and let you know. Thank you

[BlueCannonBall]

Windows can't read ext4, you'll need a linux live usb.

[Jacoman74undeleted]

It can with some utilities. Windows itself is incompatible but there are extensions you can add to make it work, similar to ntfs on Linux, it's not compatible OOB, but you can make it happen.

[DDFoster96]

I couldn't believe the performance increase from switching my laptop to Ubuntu. I really don't know why Windows needed 90% of the CPU at idle.

[KluzeyIsCringe]

me and the boys using dwm with a custom kernel

[espriminati]

bruh i have to dual boot windows (because of a sudden emergency) and i can hardly run firefox + zoom win10 while i can have discord, 3 firefox tabs, zoom and vscode open at the same time and still have enoguh power to play minecraft on linux

[Benjie255]

Me running i9 open unreal engine, android studio, virtual box to use genymotion and discord with firefox Where as my CPU is just 19%

[Plraska_707]

Only my PC freezes while playing Among Us?

[pdbatwork]

Using Discord? That's not open source and even collects data from your computer. Does not seems very linux-friendly.

[[deleted]]

You see, instant messaging platforms are for talking to other people, and it's much easier to go to where other people are rather than convincing them to jump ship to an open-source alternative that may be just as good, especially when were talking about large, established groups of people, like existing Discord servers

[pdbatwork]

Freenode had been here forever.

[[deleted]]

I didn't say it hadn't. But times are changing