I’d always go as minimal as possible to have the most resources available for things I want to run, not for things I have to run.
I agree, as low spec owner when you upgrade, you are so used to being picky to save resources as much possible since you don’t have luxury to do any high end stuff. And finally when you upgrade the habit still stays. And I think that is a good thing but sometimes it won’t hurt to go full flashy mode with all RTX on just to brag once in a while😁.
my first beowolf cluster, I built because I wanted to improve my pentium 486’s chances at doing well in some random FOSS benchmark (PiMark? it calculated pi… and you could ‘donate’ cpu runtime to help calculate more digits of pi.) It was cobbled out of my dad’s spare part’s rack.
Should have seen my dad’s face when he realied why i built the beowolf… “You mean… you did this. FOR PI??”(“Okay, that’s actually cool.”)
“Beowulf Cluster” It’s mine first time learning about it, in my head I was like yeah with name like that I don’t expect anything less 🤭, Some macho dude shouting" I am Beowulf 🗡️💪, here eat some pie’s 🥧I made"🤣.
Jokes aside I think it is really cool you were able to achieve that with just some spare parts. It is a good feeling when you help to contribute something meaningful. Really impressive 👍.
I can still remember running Windows 3.1 on my Windows 98 Pentium machine (booted into DOS 7.0). The sheer responsiveness… In a blink of an eye the system was ready, apps would open. The last time I felt this kind of responsive speed was running KolibriOS: http://www.kolibrios.org/en/
I’ve run plenty of low resource OSes/Distros on low-end hardware but… there’s nothing sweeter than running low resource OSes on high end hardware - it feels like the future (the way it was suppose to be).
Builds a high end gaming pc. Nice nice. Can’t wait to try out those new games everyone’s talking about. “Plays classic wow”
Well, you’re paying for all that performance, might as well get as much out of it as possible. God knows Snaps or Windows 11 can sometimes drag even the best hardware down to a crawl.
Using an Intel processor and no nvme drive
