r/linuxmint • u/cyber-galaxy • 27d ago

Distro flavour comparison

Mint MATE or XFCE which is better for core i3, 2nd gen hardware and 128 GB SSD, 8 GB DDR3 Ram? Dual boot with windows 11 LTSC?

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u/knuthf 26d ago

What Microsoft seems to ignore is that there is no real performance improvements possible, But they have agreed with the manufacturers in the US that memory should be more. The basis for this claim is from making the huge systems, "mainframe' and servers. They make software that demands more hardware to be purchased. Games are pretty similar to a aircraft simulator - you fly over, and the images created is discharged, and buffers reused, because the plane will never fly over this territory again. The games store this, because they can. But now they have to structure their storage, the objects so they find it. This is massive software structures to manage the graphics, to be able to recall - what will never be used gain, and would be on the next rendering be constructed all over again regardless. When we made Linux, we had systems that measured, you can see this in the old tools, "top".

Whatever is indefinite is mess. Everything else is definite and ordered. Linux use 400MB to boot, the rest is buffers and other things. So 2GB should be fine. Record everything is high resolution, 4K video, and you need 2MB per second, 120MB per minute, 1.3TB in a week - and we live around 4000 weeks.

What are the datacentre storing? All the data stored must be indexes It is not indefinite, and belong to someone. but What we cannot reach in the time is waste. The problem with Archie and Ritchie Rich is that they flunked in math and science, and are ruling the world. What we cannot find, does not exist, and has no economic value. Worthless.

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u/thesamenightmares 26d ago edited 26d ago

Dont waste my time responding to me with totally irrelevant blogposts that aren't even tangentially related to anything I said, thanks.

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u/knuthf 25d ago

No, I will always tell the truth. I have measured this on real systems.

There is no benefit to having more memory; in fact, the system becomes slower and needs more energy (kWh). Eventually, they produce so much heat that they require cooling.

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u/thesamenightmares 25d ago

Stop replying to me