Re: Linux hits a snag as Intel employees maintaining some of its drivers are laid off

From	The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Linux hits a snag as Intel employees maintaining some of its drivers are laid off
Date	2025-08-16 14:07 +0100
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On 16/08/2025 13:26, TJ wrote:
> I have no issues with the page on my 11 year old HP laptop this morning, 
> but then I maxed out the RAM at 16GB soon after buying it at a lawn sale 
> 4 years ago. RAM is cheap, and at 76 I'm too old to deal with the 
> frustration of having too little to do what I want to do. I also dumped 
> the ugly, useless Winders 8.1 that was on it, replacing it with Mageia. 
> And I replaced the rust drive with an SSD. It's a nice, capable little 
> machine, now.
> 
Yes. Once you are on a core i something processor mostly you have the 
CPU speed for normal use.  I am finding thgat on my 'entertainment' 
laptop 4GB is a bit limiting, but its OK.
Here (desktop) I run a lot of CAD/CAM software and a windows VM and 8GB 
wasn't enough and I was dubious about 16, so I got some pre loved 16GB 
worth of sticks. And now its 24GB

> I understand the concept of keeping old hardware going as long as 
> possible. I have a 2002 Dell 32-bit laptop that runs Mageia 9 with no 
> issues that I wouldn't expect with only 2GB of RAM and an almost ancient 
> Radeon GPU. But when it takes a longer time to load a website into 
> Firefox than on a newer machine I don't complain of "terrible web 
> design." Mostly, I marvel that it can still work at all.

It depends with laptops. I had a POS Toshiba with a viewing angle of 
about 5 degrees and execrable internal speakers.

I was glad when the plastic case fell to bits

On my second refurb HP  since then.Good enough. I don't want to spend 
too much on portable computers. They get damaged. or lost.




-- 
If I had all the money I've spent on drink...
..I'd spend it on drink.

Sir Henry (at Rawlinson's End)

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