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NixOS resuscitated a 2012 Macbook Air. This thing flies! I was NOT expecting that at all (thelemmy.club)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/nixos@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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[–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

Generally yes.

Here is two examples from my recent experience:

  • Run custom realtime software on rt and non-rt kernel: Huge difference when I look at milliseconds and latency.
  • I ran Minecraft recently on the standard and rt kernel, with realtime it performs much better (no dGPU)

I will look into nixOS definitely. Last time I checked must have been 2018 hehe

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Right if you have applications with rt constraints, you'll obviously need a rt-capable OS but that's more a matter of it being available as a feature, rather than being performant enough.

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