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I must be doing something wrong. On my old i5 6200u Laptop with 8 gigs of RAM fedora kde takes ages to boot and system operation is definitely more sluggish than Windows 10 used to be.

Are you using an SSD? That does make a pretty big difference.

Also, make sure you are setup to use proprietary firmware. IDK if fedora does that by default. For my laptop I was running without it for a bit and things were definitely a bit sluggish. I had to add some modprobe settings for the i915 (intel video card) driver.

For your CPU it'd look something like this

    # /etc/modprobe.d/i915.conf
    options i915 enable_guc=2 enable_fbc=1

(might be guc=3)

You'll need to make sure you have the linux-firmware package installed.

(Some googling suggest fedora isn't doing this for you).

Here's an arch wiki entry about it with a bunch of extra diagnostics commands.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Intel_graphics

Here's a gist that also covers fedora

https://gist.github.com/Brainiarc7/aa43570f512906e882ad6cdd8...

My god, the stupidity on display.

Rightfully so.

Agreed. The quality of comments has really declined.

Did you have a different account before a year ago? HN discourages the same individual rotating accounts.

Troll.

I'm under 30 at least and I do feel nostalgia for these albeit not having used most of them. First OS I ever used must have been Windows 95. I wish we could all go back to Windows 7, that was the best OS ever imo.

I'm starting to think HN isn't what it used to be when rubbish like this hits the front page.

Bad luck but doesn't really matter, does it?

I'm just curious. Also not sure what's the rule regarding submitting dupes.

I don't know what the correct solution to this problem looks like but in my opinion it's not only the kids that need saving. Social Media is eroding our societies and adults are just as hooked if not more.