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NixOS resuscitated a 2012 Macbook Air. This thing flies! I was NOT expecting that at all (lemmy.ml)

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As per title, I am mind-blown by the speed and stability of NixOS on this "relic" in IT terms... On this machine i tested:

Distro	Performance
Fedora	MEGA slow
Ubuntu	OKish
LDME	Fast
Debian	Fast
NixOS	VERY Fast

And the best thing is that I can bring this config with me on any computer! Oh boy, I think i have fallen in love with NixOS

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Thank you. Will try NixOS on a desktop soon. Speed is also very much related to the kernel, so you may want to compare kernels, too. I.e. Debian standard, Liquorix, Debian realtime, MX AHS, etc. I figured the rt kernel generally performs best for non-dGPU systems. KDE is unbearable for me, really slow on old thinkpads, while with XFCE everything is blazing fast.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

You’re right I got the latest and greatest kernel and that surely plays a factor

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