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    From Beta8088proto@VERT/DR to All on Mon Dec 8 11:07:32 2025
    So I got given a dingus idiot laptop for free, in exchange for getting the user's files off it for her, which had a 1TB spinning hard drive in it and a 1.4GHz Pentium-based CPU in it. It was a horrible netbook for the time it was made (2015) and I installed Arch Linux on it for grits and shiggles.

    Well, I tried KDE Plasma on it and it crashed on idle. Not surprising with such a horrible CPU and 8GB RAM.

    Reinstalled Arch with the Cinnamon DE, and it was actually semi-useable but still crashed if I had VLC and the text editor open at the same time, so I ordered the laptop I'm posting this from.

    So far, it's much nicer. It's a Dell laptop with 16GB RAM, a 512GB SSD and a 2.3GHz Core i7 processor, and it runs Arch with Cinnamon like a dream.

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  • From phigan@VERT/TACOPRON to Beta8088proto on Mon Dec 8 02:43:10 2025
    Re: Arch Linux story
    By: Beta8088proto to All on Mon Dec 08 2025 11:07 am

    1.4GHz Pentium-based CPU in it. It was a horrible netbook for the time it wa made (2015) and I installed Arch Linux on it for grits and shiggles.

    I'm betting there's something actually faulty with it, if it's crashing on you like that. Possibly bad RAM or disk? I have systems with much worse specs running stuff like the Plasma KDE. Slow, but fine.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to phigan on Thu Dec 11 08:53:35 2025
    phigan wrote to Beta8088proto <=-

    I'm betting there's something actually faulty with it, if it's crashing
    on you like that. Possibly bad RAM or disk? I have systems with much
    worse specs running stuff like the Plasma KDE. Slow, but fine.

    I was thinking the same thing - a bad spot of RAM that gets hit when the memsize increases due to multiple apps in RAM?



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