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Re:FreeDOS 1.2 by terminalcommand on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @02:31AM (#13261802)
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.

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Re:FreeDOS 1.2 by Quenz on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @08:07AM (#13262886)
> enable multicore support in Firefox

Why isn't this enabled by default on detection of multiple cores?

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Re:FreeDOS 1.2 by brianwawok on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @09:50AM (#13263408)
FF has never been multicore. So many plugins are not thread safe. I think they are slowly rolling out multicore as plugins fix.
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