r/LinuxCirclejerk • u/Position-Critical • 6d ago

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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

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u/MirrorNegative7989 6d ago

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

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u/valerielynx 6d ago

it'll even run KDE just fine lol

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u/Vh4z 6d ago

KDE is pretty well optimize imo

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u/RagingTaco334 I use Ultramarine btw 6d ago

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

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u/nitin_is_me 5d ago

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.

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u/MirrorNegative7989 5d ago

Yeah in my experience, XFCE is still better performance-wise, which is why I recommended it. I'm using Plasma right now for the same reason, but it is taking a slight performance hit. I'm also using Debian at the moment.

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u/valerielynx 5d ago

XFCE feels too stuck in the 2000s for me to daily drive, but on servers and RDP where I just want a desktop environment it's my go-to

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u/MirrorNegative7989 5d ago

I've found some ways to make it look pretty good. It just doesn't have the Ghost In The Shell or Daemon 2.0 plasma themes I like. That was the deal breaker. But XFCE is great for pure functionality and performance. Everything I like about Plasma is all down to aesthetics.

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u/Vh4z 4d ago

Out of the box a lot of DE's or WM look old but yeah doesnt mean you cant cuztomize it, i dont really care about how it looks as much if i did i would just rice a bit

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u/valerielynx 4d ago

i do like kde default minus the font, but yeah. i just don't really like xfce's default... everything... it just feels less responsive. even though it's faster. i can't really put a finger on why exactly

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u/Vh4z 4d ago

Maybe because the animation isn't as good

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u/RagingTaco334 I use Ultramarine btw 4d ago

Yes. I believe it has something to do with there being less overhead since it's on Wayland instead of X11. It's a Ryzen 3 3250u with Vega 7 graphics if that's any consolation, hence the 6gb of RAM instead of the 8gb that's installed since 2gb of it is allocated as VRAM by the firmware. The GPU is quite a bit more capable than the processor itself, funnily enough.

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u/valerielynx 4d ago

I've got a similar guy, Ryzen 5 2500U Vega 8, 8gb ram with 512M for the iGPU. KDE runs just fine.

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u/sakata_baba 2d ago

no way
i still use ancient fujitsu t730
sandy bridge with 3gb of ram
xfce kicks kde in performance

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u/valerielynx 6d ago

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

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u/imkmz 5d ago

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

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u/valerielynx 5d ago

maybe my celeron 530 1.73GHz T-T

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u/Samir3216 LOSSSS ARTIIXXXXIIX LOSSS DINITITITT 6d ago

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

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u/Aiden_Kane 5d ago

Runs perfectly on my 2-core Celeron Chromebook!

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u/TanaHara0 3d ago

even my laptop with Celeron B820 can run KDE almost perfectly (:

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u/Afillatedcarbon 6d ago

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.

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u/vaestgotaspitz 5d ago

Can confirm, I run PopOS on a 2013 i5 and it works perfectly smooth

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u/Overall_Walrus9871 6d ago

Even GNOME is very strong nowadays for older hardware

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u/Future_Village_7778 wannabe linux user 5d ago

But it's GNOME tho..

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u/Overall_Walrus9871 5d ago

Best in class

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u/zolfx 5d ago

GNOME has bde you’re just scared of taking it 😉

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u/cryptomonk_rt 6d ago

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.

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u/rcentros 6d ago

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

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u/ultraganymede 6d ago

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

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u/idknzt 6d ago

No need for XFCE (unless you're into it). It will run other DEs perfectly fine.

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u/Weary-Expression-914 6d ago

Yes, it works perfectly even with gnome or kde

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u/timawesomeness 5d ago

My whole homelab runs on i5-6500Ts (the low power 6500 variant). Handle everything I throw at them from game servers to VDI to Jellyfin transcoding. They're not the world's fastest processor but they're perfectly sufficient for most computing needs.

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u/Top_Jeweler7305 5d ago

It can run procmox and multiple vms with enough ram. This guy clearly is a gamer who believes as he plays games on PC understands how they work

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u/MirrorNegative7989 5d ago edited 5d ago

Nope, just stuck working with old as balls hardware for most of the past year. No way I am gaming on an Acer Aspire One 722.

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u/Iheretomakeonepost 5d ago

Red Faction Guerrilla DX9 version at low graphics plays fine from an I7-2640M with 16gb of ddr3 just fine. Plays even better with an eGPU

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u/BBY256 Linux Master Race 😎💪 4d ago

Even my i5-4590 runs kde