01-28-2022, 03:40 AM
I measure performance these days by the only yardstick that matters to me, i.e., how long I have to wait for something to happen when I strike a key,, open a window, etc. From that standpoint, this little notebook boots faster and opens major software packages like Firefox, Libreoffice, Gimp, etc. faster than the HP. It may not be a Cray, but it's certainly running efficiently. I could care less about gaming or pushing a CPU to near-meltdown. In every day use this is a very good USER. And I am not without experience, having actually punched paper tape on a 1970 HP 21MX mainframe and programmed a similar vintage Teas Instruments evaluation board to run an astronomical telescope. My only complaint, really, is the primitive and arcane methods needed to load and boot another OS. I am no fan of KDE windowing but I am running it out of fear oif bricking the system. Job 1 should be the establishment of one, or a series, of Bioses which present the same hooks to a uniform bootloaders which relieve me of the need to read tea leaves or hire the local Santeria priest to sacrifice a goat so I can load what I want to run. I remember well, from my days as a sysop/lan/IS security manager that DEC, for the Alpha, and HP for PA RISC accomplished this 30+ years ago. I'd do it myself, but bluntly, I haven't the talent to attempt it.
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