Programmer by day, burnt out by night.

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  • Fonzie!@ttrpg.networktoLinux@lemmy.ml•I swapped the entire school computers to linux mintEnglish
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    5 days ago

    we dont have the K, just the regular

    Ah, my bad (^^;
    I ran an i7-4790K in my gaming PC for a long time, as far as games go this 10-year old CPU still hold up well, never had to upgrade it surprisingly enough!

    Still, a 4 GHz quad-core with hyper-threading, and about 8 GiB of RAM, is more than enough to run Windows 10.
    Assuming these are for studying, the heavier workloads would consist of MS Word, Powerpoint and an instructional video in the webbrowser, no?
    What required tasks were too heavy for these computers under Windows 8/10?
    And do they run off SSDs, or spinning HDDs?

  • Fonzie!@ttrpg.networktoLinux@lemmy.ml•I swapped the entire school computers to linux mint
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    5 days ago

    Little side note

    those computers in question had either i5-4750 (I think?) or i7-4970 so running windows 10 with all its bloat was not going to be an easy task

    The i7-4790K is still quite powerful, so I’m pretty sure this wasn’t the problem, at all. Perhaps they’re running on an HDD, have little RAM, or you got the CPU wrong.

    You can see the CPU and RAM by launching System Info from tbf start menu, and see if it’s running on an SSD or HDD by launching Disks from the menu.

  • Fonzie!@ttrpg.networktoLinux@lemmy.ml•What was your first Linux distribution?
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    11 days ago

    My first was Ubuntu in a VM because everyone recommended it, I distro hopped in VMs until I just ended up using Mint in a VM almost exclusively. It was when I complained to someone about the issues with the VM when locking the laptop and they asked me “Why not just run that system as-is?” that I installed it for real.

    I’ve also used Manjaro for half a year, a very minimal Arch+i3 install (without the install script because I wanted the “real experience”) for about 1.5 year, and dual booted Bazzite and Mint on my gaming PC for a year (it’s just Mint now), all the while trying out other distros big and small on older hardware or in VMs.

    I don’t feel I’ve found “the one”, but somehow I keep coming back to Mint… Although, perhaps NixOS is it… Who knows?

  • Fonzie!@ttrpg.networktoLinux@lemmy.ml•The wonderful world of Linux package managers
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    16 days ago

    Shame they didn’t mention that homebrew is a security nightmare and will happily download maliciously modified code

    That’s so true, I was missing this part! With homebrew you’re at the mercy of whoever put the package out there, much like with installers (and nix to be fair)

    Edit: omg then the author claims flatpak is better for security?!? It has the same nightmare security issues.

    LMAO no‽ Flatpaks can be verified, and you can choose not to install unverified flatpaks (which you should!) They are also containerised pretty well by default, in case they’re malicious!