cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30886747
Title kind of says it all but it’s still baffling. Running an old ass amd fx with 24 gig ram in the other computer. Work laptop is an i7 with 64 gigs of ram and is still slower in daily use. Both have ssd boot drives.
Granted im comparing desktop and laptop. But a 15 year difference is pretty crazy to me.
Work pc is probably being bogged down with remote management and antivirus junk
Recently had a look at graphics cards because I’m concerned about my 1080Ti dying at some point but you literally cannot find a better bang-for-buck card than this 9 year old relic (assuming you don’t need 4k, which I don’t). Never mind that newer cards also consume much more energy too. This is why campaigns like endof10.org are so important. We’ve all got perfectly good hardware, no need to throw it away just to line some scumbag corpo’s pocket.
Yes. Linux is that much better. We’re trying to win over casual users and gamers, this year - but pure efficiency speed freak optimizers who switch are going to be very happily surprised by the difference. (A decent percent of that crowd make the switch years ago, of course. But it’s still happy news to someone new, every day.)
