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Recently I've gave up Windows for Linux and installed Ubuntu with KDE Plasma desktop on my pc and laptop from 2007. It's an i7 Intel processor with 8gb ddr ram so I thought it would be fine, but it seems quite sluggish. What distro could I use that would be faster and still fully functional? Thanks for your help in advance.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Ubuntu uses snaps, which I've found sluggish on older ide hard drives. To be honest, even flatpaks are very slow for these in my experience.

I think you might be better off with opensuse tumbleweed.

Novelty recommendation besides tumbleweed: antix.

While I haven't used antix except out of curiosity in a virtual machine, they are lightweight, but they have a hard stance against systemd.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Thanks, I have installed tumbleweed today and I like it. It is much faster too. I'm unsure about learning two different sets of commands just when I'm switching. I guess I have time to decide until my ssd arrives.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Very cool.

Interesting timing that opensuse recently announced slowroll, which has a slower cadence for updates (updates with monthly frequency, rather than daily, while security updates are still ASAP.

Depending on whether frequent updates is you thing or you prefer slightly delayed cycles.. you can easily convert your install to slowroll

https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Slowroll

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