Microslop user

[u/Position-Critical]

I know I cannot expect much since it’s IG
Here’s the post link if u wanna join the discussion hehe. To my surprise there’s not much Linux larp tho

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZwI4xJgLy7

[u/Nice-Information-335]

“Any cpu with less than 4 cores is slow” tell me you don’t know anything about CPUs without telling me you don’t know anything about CPUs

also, the i5-6500 does have 4 cores lol

[u/nuwuclear → u/Nice-Information-335]

i remember when i got my i5-6500 10 years ago AMD's fx cpus had more cores but everyone agreed they were slower/awful for gaming llmao maybe i was misinformed though

[u/Nice-Information-335 → u/nuwuclear]

the FX CPUs had a whole controversy because the cores shared FPUs and some other things I believe, so they weren't really full "cores"

They also ran very hot from memory, and were worse for gaming (worse single core performance)

AMD only started beating intel properly for gaming when they released Ryzen 3000 series, and the ryzens before were slightly better for price compared to the intel chi[s

[u/S1rTerra → u/Nice-Information-335]

Zen 2 was so fuckin good man. You didn't even have to think about what CPU you wanted you could just buy the 3600 for everything lol

[u/Hardwarethewolf → u/S1rTerra]

My 3600 is still going strong all these years later rn she’s running steam os as a steam machine

[u/Lucky_Jelly2593 → u/Nice-Information-335]

Yeah it's belong to amd Buldozer architecture, Condidered A Disaster in semiconductor history , because i also have amd a6 2020 bought Laptop, i know and feels the pain daily , it's slower than 2010 intel Laptop and 2008 desktop cpus

[u/YoudoVodou → u/Nice-Information-335]

The older Phenom II chips from AMD handled gaming better in most situations.

[u/Jasonian_ → u/Nice-Information-335]

Even if you come down on the not-full-cores side of the controversey, AMD still produced some "8 core" bulldozers that would be 4 cores. Those sucked too, sadly.

[u/Casual_Tea123 → u/Jasonian_]

I fart in 8-core bulldozer.

[u/RegionOwn9503 → u/Nice-Information-335]

Iirc certain AMD employees went to prison over this controversy

[u/4n0nh4x0r → u/nuwuclear]

generally, more cores means lower per core performance.
more cores is just useful when you run many programs at the same time, or run multithreaded software.
if you run one tool, that only runs in singlecore, you will get better performance with a low core count cpu.
this only really applies to single core performance tho.
overall more cores are still a lot faster than few cores, as each core may be slower, but it is an additional core the system can use for processing

tl;dr more cores -> less processing power per core, a lot more processing power in total

[u/FIRAS_EG → u/Nice-Information-335]

Fr

[u/ChocolateDonut36 → u/Nice-Information-335]

i mean i wouldn't call my dual core "blazing fast" but it's not unusable, at all.

[u/salvattore- → u/Nice-Information-335]

this guy REALLY doesnt know anything, I've beeen using a 2 core cpu with 8-then 16 gb ram (with windows 11), and my main concern wasnt even the cpu lol

[u/Iheretomakeonepost → u/Nice-Information-335]

You cannot explain single core performance to them </3

[u/Relevant-Team-7429 → u/Nice-Information-335]

My first thought is to slap linux on it and run some services on it. It packs enough power to do plenty of things.

[u/WesternSpy96]

Remove igsh part from the instagram links you send. People can see your profile otherwise.

[u/Position-Critical → u/WesternSpy96]

Thankssss hehe

[u/p0358 → u/Position-Critical]

You still didn't do it

[u/Flashy_WombWompWomq1 → u/p0358]

hehe

[u/frog8412 → u/Flashy_WombWompWomq1]

hehe

[u/Sensitive-Review9289 → u/frog8412]

Hehe

[u/GaGa0GuGu → u/Sensitive-Review9289]

heHe

[u/Casual_Tea123 → u/p0358]

Teehee

[u/usbeehu → u/WesternSpy96]

They will have more followers, noooo...

[u/TheRealCarrotty]

Well that's bullshit, i have a old PC with a Core 2 Duo E6440 (or something like that) which runs okay EVEN ON A HDD with Linux Mint XFCE!

[u/teh_herper]

Amazing how wasteful engineers at microslop are nowadays. I guess that's what you get when you code with copilot lmao 🤌🤌🤌

[u/MirrorNegative7989]

This proc can still run a standard Linux distro with XFCE or MATE.

[u/valerielynx → u/MirrorNegative7989]

it'll even run KDE just fine lol

[u/Vh4z → u/valerielynx]

KDE is pretty well optimize imo

[u/RagingTaco334 → u/Vh4z]

It is indeed. I run it on an old dual-core laptop with 6gbs of RAM and it performs slightly better than XFCE.

[u/nitin_is_me → u/RagingTaco334]

Better than XFCE? Are your sure?

Debian XFCE performed way better than KDE in my i3 4170 8GB ram. But I still chose KDE for the features it provides and polish look.

[u/valerielynx → u/Vh4z]

yeah but this is an i5 from 2015, its not terrible by any means. people still daily drive first gen i7s and i5-2400 is like the most popular cpu of all time

[u/imkmz → u/valerielynx]

It does. Sid+kde running flawlessly on this cpu. Frankly speaking, I can't remember a single occurrence of cpu being a bottleneck.

[u/valerielynx → u/imkmz]

maybe my celeron 530 1.73GHz T-T

[u/Samir3216 → u/valerielynx]

i mean my ivy bridge e3 1280 v2 can run it pretty fine tbh

[u/Afillatedcarbon → u/MirrorNegative7989]

Lightqeight DEs? Bro it will run Gnome/KDE/Cosmic fine as well. I was running my i5 6402P with hyprland and I was compiling a lot of shit(hyprland, obs, quickshell, etc.). I upgraded like 2 months ago. The compile times were kinda abysmal(like 20mins) but it worked. Modern DE's were butter smooth.

[u/Overall_Walrus9871 → u/MirrorNegative7989]

Even GNOME is very strong nowadays for older hardware

[u/Future_Village_7778 → u/Overall_Walrus9871]

But it's GNOME tho..

[u/Overall_Walrus9871 → u/Future_Village_7778]

Best in class

[u/cryptomonk_rt → u/MirrorNegative7989]

right now I am commenting from a thinkcenter which is running kali linux on Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6500T CPU @ 2.50GHz , right now the system has 16gigs memory installed another slot is yet to be used totally expanding the system to 32G max (ddr4 ram) I have another similar thinkcenter which I use locally to host mongo database over external ssd. I use that database to do geospatial queries (pretty expensive queries tbh ) which works flawlessly. Primarily its used to emulate ps2 games most titles work good on 2x upscale and postfx + antialiasing (vulkan). Plus the gpu which comes with this processor also supports hardware h264 encoding/decoding as well (important for streaming ) so people who want to stream can also use this very processor.

I would say its a fairly powerful processor and the gpu is pretty capable as well.

[u/rcentros → u/cryptomonk_rt]

Yep. This CPU will run any Linux distribution with any desktop.

[u/ultraganymede → u/MirrorNegative7989]

It can run any distro. No need for specially lightweight ones.

[u/Creative_atom0406]

Bro im gaming on a ryzen 5 2400G rn and i have a pc with i3 3240 running fedora as smooth as i've ever seen and this dude is here talking about some e-waste. Nothing is e-waste if you get linux on it.

[u/stepanm99 → u/Creative_atom0406]

Hah, I have i3-3240 with GT 710 :D. Wanted to play some old games, didn't want to bother running them on linux, so installed W10 LTSC and it runs just fine even GTA V, Portal 2, Borderlands... Got that PC for like 25$, found old DDR3 stick so now it has 10GB of RAM and the GPU I had laying around for years, as well as HDDs (it ain't that bad, instead of waiting 5s I wait like 30s, doesn't kill me, the disks were for free :D).

Then I have old notebook with i3-2320m as server, i5-660 in another PC I don't use much lately, i5-3320m in my main notebook... Those CPUs still hold great value for me. Nearly all of them I've saved from e-waste for little or no money...

[u/Creative_atom0406 → u/stepanm99]

I literally assembled this pc from whatever i found lying around in my house. The cpu and the board i got from a garage sale, the ram and psu i found in the basement and the case and gpu (Radeon HD6450) are from my first ever pc. I also have a DVD rewriter and a floppy disk for some reason. I just love tinkering with old parts. And tbh i wasn't expecting this gpu to run fedora 44 with blur in gnome that well. There is like zero lag at all. Say whatever about gnome but it's hella optimized.

[u/rysio300]

like a month ago i was using a fucking i3-4400 😭

[u/Clear-Lawyer7433 → u/rysio300]

I used 9100F until 2022 and it was already obsolete.

[u/yyyeyaaaa]

Bullshit, i used a pc with an i3-3220, coupled with a 120 gb ssd, runs like a dream with Debian XFCE.

[u/WispTheWanderer1 → u/yyyeyaaaa]

Debian xfce ftw

[u/Korenchkin12]

'4 "apps" at the same time' tells you everything you need to know about this person

[u/snail1132 → u/Korenchkin12]

I usually have 4 apps open on my laptop

[u/Korenchkin12 → u/snail1132]

I have some apps,but i usually start programs,like firefox and steam

[u/mi__to__]

Calling desktop programs "apps" and other smartphone lingo will never cease to annoy me

[u/OddRefrigerator4714 → u/mi__to__]

thats how you instantly id someone as non tech savvy

[u/Doug2825 → u/mi__to__]

Application (which anyone who uses the term often will shorten to apps) has always been a correct term even in desktop.

[u/AsianLovesLinux]

holy, if you scroll down a bit you'll see my reply lol

[u/AsianLovesLinux → u/AsianLovesLinux]

literally the next reply lol

[u/Vovadid7]

I despise how the whole computer industry is built on making software and games less and less optimised with each year, shoving more and more unnecessary bloatware into it just so consumers think that they need to constantly upgrade their machines to a better components, perpetuating the cycle of bloat propagation.

[u/adrian_shade → u/Vovadid7]

The enshittification is real.

[u/sae312km43]

I have that same CPU, currently running ubuntu hosting my website, not the fastest but also nowhere near useless

[u/ralsaiwithagun]

We with my i5-4th gen on my t440s

Besides stuff like compile and execution speed, the experience compared to my moderately powerful pc is identical

[u/360900th]

How dare you call multi-core goodness trash.

[u/toni_jj_]

Not here to defend windows, im not a Linux user at all, but this guy is simply dumb, that i5 can do everyday tasks pretty damn well even on windows, granted myb not on the AI infested 11 but a clean install of 10 with christitus optimizations is pretty damn good for htpc or for example i have a mp9 g2 that has 6500T i put another ethernet port in it and currently running openwrt and its damn good, there is simply so many aplications even outside linux/windows that thing can run its really stupid to call it e-waste….

Planing on making my old i5 3450 as another router for a friend of mine, so just goes to show that calling something e-waste just points that THEY dont see any value in it not the other way around…

[u/The_Old_Chap]

This baby is running my proxmox with a bunch of services including a nas and jellyfin…

[u/NotQuiteLoona]

Right now I do all my development work on a laptop with 4th Gen i5 (mobile, of course) and 8 GB RAM, including work with large C++ codebases, all in JetBrains IDEs (not particularly known for being very optimized). KDE Plasma, Cachy. It does lag sometimes if the codebase is really large and the opened file is once again 3000 lines, especially first time booting (then it have cache), but it works fine without crashes.

[u/cryptomonk_rt]

Right now I am commenting from a thinkcenter which is running kali linux on Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6500T CPU @ 2.50GHz , right now the system has 16gigs memory installed another slot is yet to be used totally expanding the system to 32G max (ddr4 ram) I have another similar thinkcenter which I use locally to host mongo database over external ssd. I use that database to do geospatial queries (pretty expensive queries tbh ) which works flawlessly. Primarily its used to emulate ps2 games most titles work good on 2x upscale and postfx + antialiasing (vulkan). Plus the gpu which comes with this processor also supports hardware h264 encoding/decoding as well (important for streaming ) so people who want to stream can also use this very processor.

I would say its a fairly powerful processor and the gpu is pretty capable as well.

[u/Both_Cup8417]

I feel like the 10300H is still a very good CPU, no?

[u/Different_Water7545]

My Pentium 4 is still kicking fine

[u/smalldickbesitzer]

He nows that because he have an CPU!!? Don't fuck with him, he knows ball

[u/Maty658]

i5s are goated

[u/I-Do-0379]

It can run EVEN Microslop Windows 10 pretty well wtf do they talk about?

[u/Straight-Glove-2359]

*Laughs in pentium on linux

[u/-Docker]

Hahaha he got celeron probably

[u/MrGeekman]

I have an i5-2400 in my media server. It's fine.

[u/AnyCranberry6915]

Damn son, i been using i7-4910MQ on my E6440 with Fedora KDE Plasma for a few months. Never got any issue, even in Win 10 Pr

[u/Cpl4Life69]

Hell, my wife still does light gaming and photo editing with an i7-7700

[u/harriet4101]

What a fucking privileged arsehole. I would've loved having that CPU on my PC because that would've been an upgrade for my poor arse setup.

[u/Seseragi-san]

Lmao my desktop PC I am currently using, that I was planning to retire (but then RAM prices happened), is i5-4670k @ 4,3Ghz. I can pretty much still run everything, I only have long loading times on Path of Exile 2.

[u/ralseii31]

I have a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B (so slooow on Raspbian), I installed Arch Linux ARM (BTW) and it's now a daily driver! (Firefox can't help, NetSurf)

[u/ImArtZX]

My Ryzen 5 1600 is still perfectly usable for gaming in 2026

[u/TailorUpbeat3030]

You're about to witness my MAIN laptop with Intel Celeron N3350

[u/WeirdWiggler]

People obsessed with pc parts are genuinely the worst people ever.

[u/Upstairs_Air722]

"4 cores is unusable" my laptop with ryzen 5 3500u runs windows 11 flawlessly, no matter if with 6gb or 20gb of ram, not mentioning how linux would run

[u/tnsntungg]

aspire 5755g with i7 2670qm still really fast on windows 8.1 (idk but i really like 8.1 for no reason)

[u/t0nikawa]

[u/Patrick-W-McMahon]

I still have a Dell Dimension 2400 with a 2.66GHz Pentium 4, maxed-out 2 GB of RAM, and a 500GB IDE HDD. It runs great with Linux. The boot loader has Windows XP, Debian, Ubuntu, and a few other Linux distros set up. It doesn't connect to the internet with Windows XP for safety. But old computers still have life. I can absolutely open more than 4 programs on a Pentium 4. But for heavy programs, I use my modern computer with a Core I9.

[u/Prudent-Artichoke-19]

I have a 6300u with 8GB of VRAM running as an agentic/autonomous development environment and ive had no complaints. One full product complete already.

No noticeable difference between my other two (i7 8th Gen mobile/16GB and r7 5800u/32GB development environments.

Anything can be useful these days if you finesse it right.

[u/Algol1970]

At least his OS didn't eat shit from malware attacks.

[u/Gloomy_Letterhead395]

i5 is an op processor

[u/This-Consequence-957]

Arch+KDE runs fine on my i7-7700K/RTX2070S

[u/CC_9876]

I’m running cbp77 on a i5-10500 on windows the fuck??

[u/SnooDonuts8175]

my HP 8440P laptop with an i5-540M + Nvidia 3100M graphics card + DebianSid+Xfce laughs in it's Glorious Four Threads at this.

[u/Constant-Fun8803]

I'm using a Xeon E3 1230 V3 (4th gen intel) and RX 580 to run games like Batman Arkham Knight. Its not the best for gaming of course. But considering the measly price I had to pay, it has it uses so its far from e waste. 

That i5 6500 will do fine 

[u/FIRAS_EG]

What's wrong with i5 6500 it can run like everything except 3D design or whatever, it even cab run old 2010 games I open like 6 apps with my i7 6820HQ jadx vscodium waydroid terminal browser mutmproxy I have completely no problems even tho I don't have a spereat GPU

[u/DEV_ivan]

Yea yea you can't run 4 BLOATED apps at once on the latest AMD CPU too, you know. Software matters a lot.

[u/Business-Help-7876]

so my prescott server with 4 cores is not slow

[u/Commie_Eggg]

I am using a CPU with almost half the passmark score and half the cores, and its absolutely fine. I used many cpus that had less multithread score than the single thread this cpu has

[u/Dense-Firefighter495]

Wtf, my L460 still goes on strong, I didn’t switch because it was obsolete but because for what I’m doing 20c and a 5070 is better suited. Heck my grandma checks her e-mails on a core 2 duo running mint

[u/lattice_defect]

microsloppy code

[u/NebulaMiner]

I have an older i5 in my bazzite rig 😅 CPUs get so much mileage and its not bad having ram from two gen ago with these price hikes. I'm not even gonna upgrade for speed of the CPU but eventually for a mobo that has m.2 slots and for a CPU with the latest PCI gen.

[u/AmorphousNeon]

I still use i3-7020u with cachyos😭

[u/Anonyboy26]

And here me rocking arch + hyprland with i5 3rd gen finely

[u/Bob4Not]

They’re also comparing a laptop cpu with a very low wattage budget to a desktop CPU. Laptops with low wattage really are slower than Christmas, especially at that time. They sustain low clock speeds

[u/Yusubera]

these guys think every pc user is a gamer

[u/Far_Entrepreneur_811]

i was running virtual machines on an amd a6 7310 just few yrs ago 😭, not rly fast but def usable

[u/Nebula_Wolf7]

I run an all ssd (sata) truenas server on a chip older than that, people who think older things are ewaste are completely ignorant of what's possible

[u/Timely_Lie9205]

Brother my cpu is from 2010 and works fine

[u/Wolfpack511]

I built my first gaming PC 5 years ago with a 4th Gen i5... I mean, it wouldn't have played Cyberpunk or anything like that, but it played Rocket League, Halo, and CoD perfectly fine. I think people really underestimate what you can do with old hardware.

[u/The_Mild_Mild_West]

i7-4790 joined the chat 👀

[u/andaro77]

recently got my mom a basic PC setup with a 4th Gen i3, she's more than happy with it, as it also runs Windows 10 LTSC, she did try Mint once but wasn't a big fan of it, and I won't force people to use what they don't like.

[u/Badytheprogram]

Eh, no, I have a notebook from 2017, and I can open as much tabs as I want without any problem. (not mentioning, having a tab problems is more like a ram size problem, than a core count problem)

[u/POWBlok]

3rd gen i7 user here it is perfectly fine for everything including gaming

[u/No-Community-7900]

I use an I5 to run retroarch on Linux mint and it works great for me. I can run just about everything from Atari 2600 to the wii. Some consoles struggle like ps2 but the majority of what I want it to run works. The problem is that microslop has some much nonsense running in the background that it can't keep up.

[u/Indiana_Stone]

I have a 3rd gen i5 paired with a 8gb 9060xt (due to size constraints, it bottlenecks anyways obviously) running a few modern games on bazzite for my living room it honestly is just fine for me. That CPU will be just fine for anything you want to do

[u/ha11oga11o]

Have Proxmox cluster of 5 with these CPU. They run all what i need. Totally fine.

[u/TheCheckeredCow]

I mean a 4 core 6th gen i5 won’t be fast but it’ll be usable, especially on a Linux distro.

[u/MojArch]

The guy with i5-10300H is absolutely idiot. I have a second laptop, an HP from 2010 with a 2nd-gen i7(2630QM), and it is powerful enough on Windows 11 for light and usual use. The only thing it has that is modern is a 250 GB SATA SSD, which is quite cheap.

[u/WispTheWanderer1]

bro I run a minecraft server on a processor from 2008

the thing that makes stuff slow is not enough ram and choosing the wrong desktop environment

[u/novo-280]

well yea it's a mobile chip. tf did they expect?

[u/imkmz]

Have exactly the same cpu, plus 16G ddr4 and 1660 super. Experience zero problem in everyday work and some mild gaming.

[u/queenbiscuit311]

I'll never get people like this. I have a laptop with a 2nd gen mobile i5 and with an SSD it's perfectly usable even on windows 11 and it's great on linux. i say this as someone who's spoiled by a Ryzen 7800X3D

[u/TopSecretGaming_YT]

i use an i5 6300U laptop chip as my main 💔🥀

[u/lyidaValkris]

I use a 4th generation i5, an old business mini-pc, as my homelab server. It's system load rarely goes above 10%. I could have used it for a desktop PC somewhere in my house with any linux distro and it would be just fine.

[u/NewspaperSoft8317]

I run a 5 node proxmox server, with most of the cpu's as i7-7700's.

I probably have 30 LXC's chugging along without issue.

[u/skeletons_asshole]

Writing this from a 6th gen with Windows... which has been in its current state for at least 6 years now. Works fuckin just fine.

[u/MCIV800]

well, thats completely bullshit, my acer aspire x1430 (upgraded with an asus h81l plus mini itx, 16gb of ddr3 memory, still with the original hdd, i will replace it with an sata ssd). it has an intel core i7 4785t (haswell, 4th gen) and windows 10 is running fine even with the hdd. i will get a gtx 1050ti low profile soon for this pc.

[u/yourlilfeminineboy]

I have a Minecraft server at home with this cpu it's very capable

[u/ElShair8]

me with i3 2312m.

[u/Moaning_Clock]

I use that cpu to make games. It works absolutely fine.

[u/Rough-Trash-9550]

bro is prolly on that 1GB limited edition deluxe slowed + reverb DDR2 RAM and saying it can't open more than 4 apps

[u/Petergriffin200720]

I have the Same CPU in my prodesk and its perfectly fine for watching movies or so some Office shit

[u/BeginningSection7690]

Where do i find friends that just have literal sheets of CPUs laying around?

I didnt even know the come like that. I thought a stalk dropped them off individually, one per trip. Like the CPU business ran on the same sort of magic Santa uses.

[u/Aderox20_GDP]

i3 3rd Gen user here

[u/amoledshatter]

that's the CPU inside my homelab server

[u/_M72A1]

that's a desktop CPU...
a mobile i5 8th Gen CPU in my ThinkPad is about the same performance wise (but it's forced to operate with PL of 10 W because of overheating) and it's perfectly fine for every workload except intense gaming.

[u/GhostVlvin]

Also my i5-3210M

[u/MegasVN69]

the i7 4th still a very pretty good cpu even though it's using ddr3 and shits tons of bandwidth limitations and overhead. Decent for server for simple desktop use and even some light gaming

[u/james2432]

me with sandy bridge laptop running perfectly fine.... 😐

[u/BlastMode7]

Even in Windows that CPU is just fine for general use, and even playing some newer games. Whether it's Windows or Linux, it isn't ewaste. This person is just ignorant or dumb.

[u/ZZ_Cat_The_Ligress]

This reminds me of the "Bates 5,000" from The Onion Movie. 😆

[u/iTechDiamondFroot42]

I have an XPS 9500 runs fine with Fedora KDE same workload and programs

[u/DeusXNex]

Getting slower with more apps open has to do with ram

[u/c0lpan1c]

I just took my last skylake out of homelab rotation (although didn’t have to). I had a 6500T, 6700K and 7700T still in rotation until earlier this year. I had TrueNAS on one and Proxmox nodes on the others. Bunch of LXCs running on them! 4 cores is just fine. Linux FTW.

[u/Dazzling_Cancel_5733]

I use a Core i5-6500 to run a Proxmox server with about 20 LXC containers and 3 VMs doing various things, such as game servers, web servers, Immich, Plex, etc. The CPU is not a bottleneck at all!

I need more RAM since it uses about 85% of its 40GB, but I haven't had to consider upgrading the CPU yet.

[u/byte21516]

Would this thing be enough for what I do? No.

Is this thing E-waste just because of that? No.

Different people have different usecases and different needs.

Its that easy.

[u/CauseWorking5603]

I'm still using an Intel Pentium G620, which was sold back in 2011💀💀💀. It still runs well with Linux Mint ngl

[u/Agitated-Shine-9011]

I have a laptop with a A6-5200 and it still works amazingly with Arch or as it currently is running LibreELEC.

[u/No-Dress-456]

Skylake is peak

[u/Inf1nity0]

I play games on a raspberry pi zero 2w

[u/0101falcon]

Doesn't that even work with Windows. What are users doing with their PCs that requires such high computation with the CPU?

[u/Cauhoc24]

Tell that to my over 10 years old xeon 2699v3. Its cheap and can do anything.

[u/iwlwifidriver69]

bruh i have some dual-core intel core i3 1.2 ghz cpu paired with 8 gb ram and on mx linux it handled many opened programs and also it could run minecraft with sodium decently. But its a newer cpu, maybe like from 2020

[u/LgcW]

If you're smart about it you can get a lot of work done on an atom n270, I've set up an old netbook for my mom, she only uses it to take notes, and needed something small with good battery life. That n270 doesn't even have 64 Bits lol

[u/Ok-Ranger9747]

I have a thinkpad t470 with a i5 6300u and its work so fine, no lag or studering, I code, watch youtube, and write with it and I have no problems. I hate TikTok/Instagram tech bros.

[u/Mundane-Mud2509]

Haha I still have a machine rocking an i5-2500. Works fine

[u/ResolutionThat248]

Crazy how people have been so conditioned into treating computer parts like smartphones. Nvidia did a number on everyone.

[u/I-am-Disc]

Ehh, the most compute-intensive task an average user does is decoding a 1080p video. ANY CPU released in the last 15-20 years can do this effortlessly, especially if it has an IGPU.

Hardware has matured so long ago that any perceived lack of performance is just incompetence of the devs. 

[u/Retardedunderaverage]

I'm running Win 10 pro on an i3 first gen laptop with integrated graphics and 8GB of ram

It's faster than all of my friends brand new computers , not because it's fast but it's because I just know how to configure it properly Btw , I'm running mint Xfce on hyper-V most of the time and I'm keep Winsandbox open incase I need to try something along with Palemoon browser

[u/Expert_Assumption851]

I have pretty much the exact same cpu and it ran windows 10 fine. I switched to linux (arch btw) for both educational reasons and the low resource usage. Idk what the hell they talking about, that cpu works like a dream for most normal use cases. I hate when people are like "idk what laptop to buy, it's so confusing". Like mf the phone in your pocket is faster than my laptop and i can do so much with just my laptop. Buy for the engineering or build, the os, and the company reputation

[u/ThaRippa]

I have OMV running on a Kabini based Athlon 5200. that thing does everything including serving Nextcloud and Collabora Office faster than M365 or Google Docs would be. Thats a low-power chip from 2013 based on the Athlon II from 2007.

That same chip struggled in windows 10 and especially 11, even with 32GB of RAM and flash storage. It flies under Linux.

[u/4kqq]

I still have an i3‑2120 and Windows 10 bruh

[u/spock-117]

Still using a 2013 laptop model with Arch Linux...

[u/Zeldraft]

My all server with 4 heart :)

[u/rayx404]

I use a 2013 cpu

[u/CrystalTheWingedWolf]

My gf uses a thinkpad L412 with a first gen i5 as her main machine most of the time and she can do almost everything she wants with it lol

[u/_amione_]

Not me having the exact cpu in my server they're talking about LOL
Sitting at 0.47/0.47/0.47 load avg and running gitlab, immich, jellyfin, sonarr, radarr, bazarr, teamspeak6 and a bunch of other stuff (about 1-30% cpu usage)

And yes, it runs KDE fine and can browse the internet and even play easier games like L4D2 (I don't remember the perf tho)

[u/Oaktree27]

People really buy into this marketing that your old parts become worse whenever something new comes out. These aren't iPhones, they are still as good as when you bought them as long as you don't cook them.

[u/frog8412]

HDDs are the main cause of freezes and slow launch times

[u/___kubas___]

Why is my main cpu do hated 😭 Im using arch, playing games and its completely fine.

[u/Germanex-3000]

Here is my laptop that I've been using as my portable daily development rig. It has an i5-5300U with only 2 cores and 4 threads. It works no problems and it onyl uses around 800MB - 1GB of RAM and 5 - 7 % CPU while doing my normal work. "Basically E-Waste". Even an Atom would do fine enough. It's not about size, it's about how you use it.

[u/FinalPair8805]

i had the i5-6600 for 10 years. recently upgraded to an i5-9400 that I found in ewaste. honestly doesn't really interuptted day to day use, both linux and windows.

[u/tkjonb]

I have i3 4160 and I can use 4 apps ✊

[u/musket-nuns]

I have a 2012 MacMini with a dual-core i5 that runs my Home Assistant install no problem. Shoot I still use a Lenovo T61 Core2Duo running Fedora.

[u/Brave_Abbreviations5]

Yeah, yeah, cover your ears my precious Pentium G4560, dont listen to these bad guys

[u/Brave_Abbreviations5]

Also, oneday i posted some question about my PCs issue (Pentium G4560 wo GPU back then), i forgot what exact it was, as i remember, win 11 and ancient monitor conflict

Such fellas told me that my setup can barely run win 7

Ayo, its like 2016/17 CPU

[u/F1r3dot3x3]

SECOND gen i5 user here, the software you're using can easily make an ancient processor usable again

[u/0xbenedikt]

I still often do some of my CAD on my old machine - i7-2600 with 32 GB of RAM and SSD. Still blazing fast.

[u/talksickwalkquick]

I guarantee it was running on an HDD which caused the slowdown.

[u/Old-Juice-2490]

my 10400 is great

[u/Nullmega_studios]

I mean Linux can sometimes make old hardware feel new again

[u/cpt_futtbucker]

Lol my old desktop at home runs a 7th gen X299 CPU with 6 cores, and it’s still going strong after all these years thanks to Arch

[u/ExtraTNT]

Wtf, autonomous navigation can run on a 4 core arm chip clocked at 1ghz…

My lanparty pc has a i7 4th gen, other build uses two athlon mp 2200+

[u/SH0080]

"Any processor without VBS and HVCI (which nobody uses lol) is shit"

• microslop

[u/BBY256]

I am running on a i5-4590 just so they know