Uunnecessary and unfriendly requirements

[oswaldkelso]

This is the machine I've been using today. The wife's. She likes it. She's used to windows so thinks the speed is fine Added another hard drive and wanted to get the data off it. Slow to start, slow to browse but very usable otherwise and I hate slow machines. People install bloat. simple as that. My main machine is better spec but only a couple years newer. I started my ancient Dragora 2 install on this machine last week and I swear it was faster than my MBP i7 with 8GB of ram . It has an old kernel so I'm guessing Kernel is getting fat as well as many programs code. Some one with more knowledge than me will probably explain. But SNS tends to be friggin bloated and slow with very little bang for you buck.

System: Host: darkstar2.local Kernel: 5.15.145 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 2.37-slack15) Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0
tk: Gtk 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 dm: SDDM Distro: Slackware 15.0
Machine: Type: Desktop System: Dell product: Dell DV051 v: N/A serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 6 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Dell model: 0JC474 serial: <filter> BIOS: Dell v: A03 date: 10/08/2005
CPU: Topology: Single Core model: Intel Pentium 4 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Netburst Smithfield rev: 9 L2 cache: 1024 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 bogomips: 5585
Speed: 2793 MHz min/max: N/A Core speed (MHz): 1: 2793
Graphics: Device-1: Intel 82915G/GV/910GL Integrated Graphics vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0
chip ID: 8086:2582
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.14 driver: intel unloaded: modesetting,vesa alternate: fbdev
resolution: 1680x1050~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 915G v: 1.4 Mesa 21.3.5 direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW High Definition Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:2668
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.15.145
Network: Device-1: Intel 82562ET/EZ/GT/GZ - PRO/100 VE Ethernet vendor: Dell driver: e100 v: kernel port: dcc0
bus ID: 03:08.0 chip ID: 8086:1064
IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Edimax EW-7811Un 802.11n Wireless Adapter [Realtek RTL8188CUS] type: USB driver: rtl8192cu bus ID: 1-3:4
chip ID: 7392:7811 serial: <filter>
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-3: NetGear WN111(v2) RangeMax Next Wireless [Atheros AR9170+AR9101] type: USB driver: carl9170 bus ID: 1-4:5
chip ID: 0846:9001 serial: <filter>
IF: wlan1 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 951.48 GiB used: 183.18 GiB (19.3%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST3320620AS size: 298.09 GiB speed: 1.5 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: G
scheme: MBR
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Hitachi model: HDS721616PLA380 size: 153.39 GiB speed: 1.5 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: A70A
scheme: MBR
ID-3: /dev/sdc type: USB vendor: Generic model: Flash Disk size: 500.00 GiB serial: <filter> rev: 8.07 scheme: MBR
Partition: ID-1: / size: 287.33 GiB used: 22.64 GiB (7.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
ID-2: swap-1 size: 5.10 GiB used: 259.6 MiB (5.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda1
Sensors: Message: No sensors data was found. Is sensors configured?
Info: Processes: 235 Uptime: 7h 13m Memory: 1.92 GiB used: 1.05 GiB (55.0%) Init: SysVinit v: 3.01 runlevel: 4 default: 4
Compilers: gcc: 11.2.0 alt: 11.2.0 clang: 13.0.0 Shell: bash v: 5.1.16 running in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.0.37

It's running Slackware so might be slightly lighter than Debian but I doubt I'd notice. Hyperbola on the other hand is noticeably lighter and faster as they're hard core on ripping stuff out.