My top 5 distros Sept 2019
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Im typing on Q4OS KDE on my E6400 with 2.26ghz C2D, 4gb ram, and 128gb Liteon SSD hard drive and its fast. Runs very well even with multimedia online. Its a nice laptop I still enjoy using. The SSD makes a huge difference in its performance.
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Yeah, that would be just BARELY more powerful than my Chromebooks were. The N2840 Celeron in several of those was basically the same processing power level at a T5xxx C2D. Combined with a (faster than hard drive, but slower than true SSD) eMMC storage and only 4 GB ram, it would run KDE 5.8.x, but it was somewhat limited. Chromium could only do about 4 tabs before it would slow down. AT the time I wasn't using Firefox as it was pre-quantum and it took literally 1+ minutes to load a page the performance was so poor on that browser. So possible, yes. Pleasantly, no. Upgrading to the Chuwi, which would probably be a CPU right in line with your e6400's (late T9000 series approximately) with 6 GB ram, a REAL SSD, and KDE 5.12.x+, and it ran just fine.
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The E6400 with the SSD feels like a much newer laptop and right now its my wifes Windows 7 laptop backup.
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Going to retry ROSA today and see how it goes. Still like it a lot and would like to use it, so hoping maybe theyve done a bit more updating since my last try.
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They havent fixed the Firefox issue and other issues cropped up as well. Didnt see my printer even though all the other distros did. I guess Im done with RPM distros, moving on.
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Well, that sucks.crosscourt wrote: ↑Sat Sep 21, 2019 8:26 pm They havent fixed the Firefox issue and other issues cropped up as well. Didnt see my printer even though all the other distros did. I guess Im done with RPM distros, moving on.
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At least they're getting good usability out of that kernel!! Been on that for a long time now, even though it's been EOL (from mainline view) for over a year.
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I was disappointed that ROSA after install and updates had some new hardware related issues that I hadnt experienced with my other KDE distros.
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