Gregory's ServerI commented "laptops don't get slow, software does" on a video on upgrading your laptop and WOW was I taken aback by some of the response.
People actually believe degrading thermal paste is to blame for a messenger app taking half a gig of RAM?
That the Epic games launcher takes ages to launch because it has so many features?
That a news website is downloading and interpreting a small operating system worth of code for-what-reason-exactly is the march of progress?
@sjmulder I had an unusable Macbook Air from around 2011, just so slow, sluggish, and laggy.
Not had one single issue with it since I removed macOS and installed Linux on it. First Mint, and now Manjaro. Both work perfectly fine.
It's the software.
@sjmulder@bsd.network tbh thermal paste in laptops is really shit but all i've seen that do was temperatures getting over 65 degrees on light load and fans getting really loud
@sjmulder i mean it definitely can be both for the record
poorly maintained hardware will perform worse than better maintained hardware, though a large issue with old hardware is the bloat of modern windows and applications
like you won't be able to play diablo 1 well on the systems it was meant to run on if you never changed the thermal paste and left the vents clogged
i agree with the sentiment about software being unoptimized, but laptops do get slow unmaintained, even if software stays the same
but yeah putting linux on an old machine can help it a lot in my experience, but these old guys need some physical and mental care, both need to be fixed for a machine to be happy
@sjmulder i mean it definitely can be both for the record
poorly maintained hardware will perform worse than better maintained hardware, though a large issue with old hardware is the bloat of modern windows and applications
like you won't be able to play diablo 1 well on the systems it was meant to run on if you never changed the thermal paste and left the vents clogged
i agree with the sentiment about software being unoptimized, but laptops do get slow unmaintained, even if software stays the same