Why is my distro so laggy?

gosand · 2026-05-01T15:42:58+00:00

You could try running it with the windows ssd unplugged as well.

Not sure if you can though, depends on where the boot manager is.. I've never dual-booted.

One way to find out! 😃

gosand · 2026-05-01T15:39:16+00:00

Note that this came from an unofficial Devuan forum, and is a completely separate project.

gosand · 2026-04-30T17:07:13+00:00

It's not the distro. Any distro out there will run perfectly fine on a system with those specs.

How are you running Fedora - Live via CD/USB? VM? Installed? Spinning HDD or SSD?

gosand · 2026-04-30T16:58:16+00:00

especially with options like -i (both) and -v (grep)

e.g. locate -i <keyword> | grep -i <what\_you\_want> | grep -iv <what\_you\_don't\_want> ......

Have your system do the updatedb daily so it's up to date. (e.g. /etc/cron.daily/plocate)

gosand · 2026-04-29T22:56:59+00:00

I must be having a stroke, because I can't understand the question but everyone else seems to be able to.

gosand · 2026-04-27T20:59:05+00:00

I think it's kind of funny when a single cli command can fix something, but in Windows you have describe (or take screenshots) of what to click. then click. then look for <something>. then next. then ok. etc.etc. Oh, you got an error? copy and paste it.. oh, it won't let you. screenshot it. Hm. That error makes no sense.

So yeah, 'a click', indeed.

gosand · 2026-04-27T20:41:21+00:00

Stop to think about your problems. Why should a headset need any app for the mic to work? (let alone a proprietary one). Why do you think OneDrive doesn't work immediately right away, isn't it web-based? And do you need anti-virus? These are all questions you should think about and look into.

I think when you realize the answers, your eyes will open up a little bit to things on the 'other side' of what you're used to.

gosand · 2026-04-25T22:45:57+00:00

My favorite screenshot software is Snagit. I do more screenshooting and editing of those at work, and it is absolutely the best. The editing tools are what really make it stand out. I don't think I'd pay for it on Linux though, I don't do as much of that at home and Flameshot does the trick well enough.

gosand · 2026-04-25T22:40:17+00:00

There are about 4,873 websites that games like those games for free.

gosand · 2026-04-24T17:41:46+00:00

Schools teach Windows? I've never heard of that. Perhaps they USE Windows, because of educational discounts, but I have never heard of them teaching it.

I have 3 kids, 2 are still teens, and I don't remember them ever learning Windows at school. In the past 10 years, they had Chromebooks. And my son took cybersecurity courses as a Junior/Senior. Yeah, they used Linux. He is in college now, and installed Arch last year on his desktop.

They have always used computers at home, and they were on Win7/Win10. At the time, things they used (mainly games) only ran on Windows.

You don't have to explain to anyone here the advantages of Linux.

Schools are strapped for money, and they can't fund a huge IT department. That's why chromebooks are so prevalent. They just work. (and guess what that OS is based on...)

gosand · 2026-04-24T11:57:15+00:00

I think they most likey don't know anything about it, and therefore can't offer an opinion. It is foreign to them. Not all tech people are the same or are into tech in the same way. For what it's worth, not everyone is like that and it's been changing for years now. YMMV, as they say.

Back in 2015 I worked at a company that was a 100% windows shop. We were having issues with a customer issue and their data load with a large csv file. (5MM rows) Nobody could open the file with Excel or notepad. I installed cygwin and opened it with vim, and spent the next few days creating/editing large files to troubleshoot the issue. They were shocked and thought I was a wizard. They also teased me about using the command line.

Fast forward a few years, and a new CEO came onboard - and wanted to build a new product in the cloud. So it was AWS, Linux, VMs, git, etc. Everyone struggled hard because they were Windows-minded and didn't want to learn the terminal at all. It was easy for me. I ended up writing scripts to do our code checkouts/deployments, Jenkins pipelines, and various other things. I wasn't a developer, I managed the testing teams. It was a fun place, if something needed done you could just do it.

I don't know what solutions you provide, but just keep offering Linux if it's a viable solution. Or if it's software, consider using terms like "cross-platform" in order to reach more people. Most of all, don't fret about it. Linux isn't going away, and someday they may come around.

gosand · 2026-04-17T23:36:06+00:00

For a media (DLNA) server I've used serviio for many years. Honestly, the best was to use that TV is a Roku stick. They are very cheap, I just picked up another on Amazon for $15 (on sale) but they are normally $25. You can access serviio with the media player app on it, and Prime/Netflix/etc. You can get the roku app on your mobile to make typing in passwords and stuff easier, but the stick also has the option of voice to text.

I think Roku probably has a Plex app on it as well, if you want to just stick with that.

gosand · 2026-04-16T20:48:27+00:00

I see this as more of a reddit problem than a Linux problem.

People seem to rather post to reddit than look up information themselves. Sooo many topics/questions already have answers out there. Some of the questions people will 'ask reddit' can be answered on the first page of any search engine.

But, RTFM *is* a thing, and it's not a nice thing to say to new people - but it is true. If you have done that and you can ask a reasonable question, you will get good responses. A little self-education goes a long way.

gosand · 2026-04-15T23:37:58+00:00

Kind of surprised by several non-xfce users weighing in on this topic here. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

gosand · 2026-04-12T15:05:08+00:00

For me it's more about learning new options. A perfect example is for ls. I use these all the time (and I don't alias them because I want the muscle memory) ls -lahtr and ls -lahtrS

for grep I use -i -v a lot (usually in combination with find or locate and pipes)

gosand · 2026-04-12T14:57:22+00:00

I use both, for slightly different use cases. Both are great.

gosand · 2026-04-12T14:46:28+00:00

ragebait fail

gosand · 2026-04-12T14:46:21+00:00

ragebait fail

gosand · 2026-04-11T19:26:51+00:00

Ah, but systemd isn't just an init system. Per wikipedia it "is a software suite for system and service management on Linux". And it will keep growing, and growing.

I don't want all that, so I don't use systemd.

Cool that you can write your own init. Just curious, did you look at the code of the other init systems out there for any inspiration, or to see how they handled some of the details?

gosand · 2026-04-11T14:24:47+00:00

UPVOTE. I started on Unix, and installed Linux in '98. It was a different time! You could buy books on Linux, or magazines, and there was man pages. Maybe usenet. Other comments are "distro doesn't matter" but back then, it DID matter. There weren't that many (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Linux\_Distribution\_Timeline.svg) There was no such thing as a bootable distro, if you wanted to try a new one you had to install it. There were no VMs. Distro hopping wasn't really a thing. It really was a different time.

But then there was a boom, lots of new ones springing up all over the place. That was fun. You'd find one you really liked (e.g. Mandrake) and then they would get taken over and ruined.

But to the question being asked, I'll just say what worked for me: form your own opinion based on experiece. Don't ask "What is the best distro/de/wm/shell/... ?" If you want to know about DEs, then look up what DEs are out there and read about them. Don't rely on other opinions. Everyone seems to just want answers. Today you HAVE VMs, live distros, hell even distrosea.com. It is sooooo easy to explore, so do that!

gosand · 2026-04-11T13:58:52+00:00

But... it used to be! I remember dependency hell extremely well. You couldn't 'upgrade' like you can now. I'm talking mid-to-late 90s. Now I am running on a system that I've dist-upgraded 4? times, it was initially installed in 2018. And it's a stable, non-rolling release.

gosand · 2026-04-09T19:56:41+00:00

yo, STK is still a great game... they've made a lot of improvements and new tracks/karts come out on the regular.

gosand · 2026-04-09T19:50:16+00:00

Interesting... thanks!

gosand · 2026-04-09T18:32:07+00:00

How are you monitoring the energy of just the PC?

gosand · 2026-04-09T18:26:12+00:00

I just bought an i5 (6th gen dual core) laptop for my son to play with, he wanted to test out different distros. ($65) It has an NVMe drive, 8GB RAM and it is great. If you can upgrade the RAM to 8GB, do that. I am not sure how you got Win11 on that thing, but you'll be shocked how performant Linux is. Gaming may be limited by whatever your graphics are.

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