From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: swedebugia Subject: Re: Question about Guix documentation Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 09:29:00 +0100 Message-ID: <014db2c0-b976-ef3e-da74-77aea3522e86@riseup.net> References: <87wootmajh.fsf@roquette.mug.biscuolo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55071) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gXMMv-0004Gp-RO for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Dec 2018 03:29:18 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gXMMo-0000Qi-6g for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Dec 2018 03:29:15 -0500 Received: from mx1.riseup.net ([198.252.153.129]:50212) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gXMMn-0000Pc-NL for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Dec 2018 03:29:09 -0500 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Laura Lazzati Cc: Guix-devel , Ricardo Wurmus On 2018-12-03 00:39, Laura Lazzati wrote: >> 1GB of RAM? That is a *lot* :) >> I have 2 GB on my 2 day-to-day laptops. 1 with GNOME3 GuixSD and 1 with >> Parabola+MATE. Both work fine and I rarely have to wait for other >> programs than the really heavy ones (Libreoffice comes to mind). > Oh no! my retroPC is fancy :O and I did not know :) I was going to add > that I did almost up to 4th year of university with it but felt > ashamed. I guess you know where the name MATE comes from ;), it is at > the end of the site. I will check the processor. because I don't > remember how many cores it has. Actually what makes a bigger difference than CPU speed/number of cores is the hdd/ssd speed. Because of the heavy store/hardlinking/profile generation hooks etc. Guix is quite disk I/O intensive. So installing ssd in your old laptop would probably speed things up. They are cheep these days and you can get away with buying a small one for little money 32Gb is enough if you trim generations and run guix gc regularly). -- Cheers Swedebugia