Re:FreeDOS 1.2
by amiga-workbench on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @12:20AM
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I can barely scroll a few pages down on Facebook before my X201 starts getting sub-1FPS. This infinite scrolling crap is never done right.
Re:FreeDOS 1.2
by terminalcommand on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @02:31AM
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Another fellow x201 user here. The bottleneck of our computers are definitely the CPU. After putting an SSD it felt fast for a while. But now especially whilst browsing I get irritated a lot. I can't decide whether if it's pure psychology or a need for more performance.
I am an avid Debian user for many years, lastly I used FreeBSD for a couple of months on the x201. Now, I'm using ElementaryOS.
With Debian iwlwifi was a problem, did not work reliably. FreeBSD was a lot of hassle to work with -with no network manager being present etc.-, but driver support was excellent. ElementaryOS is currently working like a charm.
Another tip besides installing an SSD is to enable multicore support in Firefox.
> enable multicore support in Firefox
Why isn't this enabled by default on detection of multiple cores?
Re:FreeDOS 1.2
by brianwawok on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @09:50AM
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FF has never been multicore. So many plugins are not thread safe. I think they are slowly rolling out multicore as plugins fix.
Don't worry, many CrapScript sites don't even run properly on a 4 GHz Intel machine.
The best thing i did for staying sane while browsing was to install noscript on firefox. Not sure how it will work now that Mozilla is "reworking (gutting?) Firefox extensions to make room for pr tab processes.
I installed office 2003 on my hp spectre, alongside office 365. Word 365 takes 5-7 seconds to fully load, but word 2003 just appears as soon as you click the icon. The load time is instant. And with the compatibility pack for 2007 / docx files it does everything 365 does
Now, even modern office is surprisingly fast on desktop, despite having lots more features. We can talk about performance on the desktop all day, but if you want to see the real perf regression, look at all these web apps running in the browser - they are absolute nightmares unless you happen to have a very nice machine to use them with.