On Wed, 6 Sep 2017 17:08:35 -0700 Aaron Jones wrote: > You know, the guy at the computer store told me I would never fill my > 10gb hard drive. My Kaypro 2x had two 170KB floppy drives. The twice-as-expensive Kaypro 4 had a hard disk --- I think 5MB. I asked myself: Why would one ever need more than two 170's? But yeah, I know what you mean: There's some real bloatware out there. No matter how capable your machine, you can always find software to bring it to its knees. So what I do is I use Openbox as my user interface (and I might change to the probably skinnier ctwm soon), never use Firefox, never use Nautilus, and never use any KDE software or library. My 4 year old 16G RAM 2core desktop is snappy as hell with that setup, and my 8GB 3 year old HP 4core laptop is reasonable. My 2006 Acer laptop with 2GB RAM runs just fine with this same setup. By the way, I use Void Linux, which inits with Runit. SteveT Steve Litt September 2017 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting Brand new, second edition http://www.troubleshooters.com/mgr --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss