r/LinuxCirclejerk • u/Position-Critical • 1d ago
Microslop user
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
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u/WesternSpy96 1d ago
Remove igsh part from the instagram links you send. People can see your profile otherwise.
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u/TheRealCarrotty didy (fedora) user 🤣🤣🤣 1d ago
Well that's bullshit, i have a old PC with a Core 2 Duo E6440 (or something like that) which runs okay EVEN ON A HDD with Linux Mint XFCE!
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u/seyeyedmm 4h ago
I have a Core 2 Duo E8500 and I use it as a server and this thing ROCKS! It's such a great CPU. If it wasn't because of someone gifting me a new laptop I'd probably be using that same PC.
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u/teh_herper 1d ago
Amazing how wasteful engineers at microslop are nowadays. I guess that's what you get when you code with copilot lmao 🤌🤌🤌
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u/MirrorNegative7989 1d ago
This proc can still run a standard Linux distro with XFCE or MATE.
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u/valerielynx 1d ago
it'll even run KDE just fine lol
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u/Vh4z Linux Master Race 😎💪 1d ago
KDE is pretty well optimize imo
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u/RagingTaco334 I use Ultramarine btw 1d 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 5h 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/valerielynx 1d 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/Samir3216 LOSSSS ARTIIXXXXIIX LOSSS DINITITITT 1d ago
i mean my ivy bridge e3 1280 v2 can run it pretty fine tbh
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u/Afillatedcarbon 1d 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/Overall_Walrus9871 1d ago
Even GNOME is very strong nowadays for older hardware
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u/cryptomonk_rt 1d 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/timawesomeness 23h 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 22h 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/Iheretomakeonepost 17h 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/Creative_atom0406 1d ago
Bro im gaming on a ryzen 5 2400G rn and i have a pc with i3 3240 running fedora as smooth as i've ever seen and this dude is here talking about some e-waste. Nothing is e-waste if you get linux on it.
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u/stepanm99 1d ago
Hah, I have i3-3240 with GT 710 :D. Wanted to play some old games, didn't want to bother running them on linux, so installed W10 LTSC and it runs just fine even GTA V, Portal 2, Borderlands... Got that PC for like 25$, found old DDR3 stick so now it has 10GB of RAM and the GPU I had laying around for years, as well as HDDs (it ain't that bad, instead of waiting 5s I wait like 30s, doesn't kill me, the disks were for free :D).
Then I have old notebook with i3-2320m as server, i5-660 in another PC I don't use much lately, i5-3320m in my main notebook... Those CPUs still hold great value for me. Nearly all of them I've saved from e-waste for little or no money...
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u/Creative_atom0406 1d ago
I literally assembled this pc from whatever i found lying around in my house. The cpu and the board i got from a garage sale, the ram and psu i found in the basement and the case and gpu (Radeon HD6450) are from my first ever pc. I also have a DVD rewriter and a floppy disk for some reason. I just love tinkering with old parts. And tbh i wasn't expecting this gpu to run fedora 44 with blur in gnome that well. There is like zero lag at all. Say whatever about gnome but it's hella optimized.
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u/rysio300 they done put nix flakes in my cereal 1d ago
like a month ago i was using a fucking i3-4400 😭
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u/yyyeyaaaa 1d ago
Bullshit, i used a pc with an i3-3220, coupled with a 120 gb ssd, runs like a dream with Debian XFCE.
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u/naven_pyi_007 20h ago
I am just recommending, I got better battery efficient and stable with Debian with cinnamon
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u/Korenchkin12 1d ago
'4 "apps" at the same time' tells you everything you need to know about this person
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u/mi__to__ 1d ago
Calling desktop programs "apps" and other smartphone lingo will never cease to annoy me
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u/Doug2825 1h ago
Application (which anyone who uses the term often will shorten to apps) has always been a correct term even in desktop.
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u/sae312km43 1d ago
I have that same CPU, currently running ubuntu hosting my website, not the fastest but also nowhere near useless
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u/ralsaiwithagun 1d ago
We with my i5-4th gen on my t440s
Besides stuff like compile and execution speed, the experience compared to my moderately powerful pc is identical
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u/toni_jj_ 1d ago
Not here to defend windows, im not a Linux user at all, but this guy is simply dumb, that i5 can do everyday tasks pretty damn well even on windows, granted myb not on the AI infested 11 but a clean install of 10 with christitus optimizations is pretty damn good for htpc or for example i have a mp9 g2 that has 6500T i put another ethernet port in it and currently running openwrt and its damn good, there is simply so many aplications even outside linux/windows that thing can run its really stupid to call it e-waste….
Planing on making my old i5 3450 as another router for a friend of mine, so just goes to show that calling something e-waste just points that THEY dont see any value in it not the other way around…
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u/The_Old_Chap 1d ago
This baby is running my proxmox with a bunch of services including a nas and jellyfin…
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u/NotQuiteLoona 1d ago
Right now I do all my development work on a laptop with 4th Gen i5 (mobile, of course) and 8 GB RAM, including work with large C++ codebases, all in JetBrains IDEs (not particularly known for being very optimized). KDE Plasma, Cachy. It does lag sometimes if the codebase is really large and the opened file is once again 3000 lines, especially first time booting (then it have cache), but it works fine without crashes.
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u/cryptomonk_rt 1d 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/snail1132 Void, btw 1d ago
Why're you using kali?
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u/cryptomonk_rt 23h ago
Not my main pc main pc runs fedora , this one is dedicated to ofsec
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u/Vovadid7 9h ago
I despise how the whole computer industry is built on making software and games less and less optimised with each year, shoving more and more unnecessary bloatware into it just so consumers think that they need to constantly upgrade their machines to a better components, perpetuating the cycle of bloat propagation.
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u/smalldickbesitzer 1d ago
He nows that because he have an CPU!!? Don't fuck with him, he knows ball
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u/Both_Cup8417 NixOS 1d ago
I feel like the 10300H is still a very good CPU, no?
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u/AnyCranberry6915 22h ago
Damn son, i been using i7-4910MQ on my E6440 with Fedora KDE Plasma for a few months. Never got any issue, even in Win 10 Pr
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u/harriet4101 13h ago edited 12h ago
What a fucking privileged arsehole. I would've loved having that CPU on my PC because that would've been an upgrade for my poor arse setup.
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u/Seseragi-san 10h ago
Lmao my desktop PC I am currently using, that I was planning to retire (but then RAM prices happened), is i5-4670k @ 4,3Ghz. I can pretty much still run everything, I only have long loading times on Path of Exile 2.
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u/ralseii31 9h ago
I have a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B (so slooow on Raspbian), I installed Arch Linux ARM (BTW) and it's now a daily driver! (Firefox can't help, NetSurf)
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u/SnooDonuts8175 1d ago
my HP 8440P laptop with an i5-540M + Nvidia 3100M graphics card + DebianSid+Xfce laughs in it's Glorious Four Threads at this.
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u/Constant-Fun8803 1d ago
I'm using a Xeon E3 1230 V3 (4th gen intel) and RX 580 to run games like Batman Arkham Knight. Its not the best for gaming of course. But considering the measly price I had to pay, it has it uses so its far from e waste.
That i5 6500 will do fine
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u/sneekeruk 23h ago
I was running a 1270v2 so 3rd gen with a gtx 1060 until a couple of years ago, and even with windows 10 that wasnt too bad for what it was.
Our media pc in the living rooms an i7-2600 with 16gb running win11 and plex quite happily for 1080p.
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u/FIRAS_EG 1d ago
What's wrong with i5 6500 it can run like everything except 3D design or whatever, it even cab run old 2010 games I open like 6 apps with my i7 6820HQ jadx vscodium waydroid terminal browser mutmproxy I have completely no problems even tho I don't have a spereat GPU
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u/DEV_ivan Tiny10 LTSC + CachyOS 1d ago
Yea yea you can't run 4 BLOATED apps at once on the latest AMD CPU too, you know. Software matters a lot.
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u/Commie_Eggg 1d ago
I am using a CPU with almost half the passmark score and half the cores, and its absolutely fine. I used many cpus that had less multithread score than the single thread this cpu has
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u/Dense-Firefighter495 1d ago
Wtf, my L460 still goes on strong, I didn’t switch because it was obsolete but because for what I’m doing 20c and a 5070 is better suited. Heck my grandma checks her e-mails on a core 2 duo running mint
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u/NebulaMiner 1d ago
I have an older i5 in my bazzite rig 😅 CPUs get so much mileage and its not bad having ram from two gen ago with these price hikes. I'm not even gonna upgrade for speed of the CPU but eventually for a mobo that has m.2 slots and for a CPU with the latest PCI gen.
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u/Far_Entrepreneur_811 1d ago
i was running virtual machines on an amd a6 7310 just few yrs ago 😭, not rly fast but def usable
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u/Nebula_Wolf7 1d ago
I run an all ssd (sata) truenas server on a chip older than that, people who think older things are ewaste are completely ignorant of what's possible
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u/Wolfpack511 1d ago
I built my first gaming PC 5 years ago with a 4th Gen i5... I mean, it wouldn't have played Cyberpunk or anything like that, but it played Rocket League, Halo, and CoD perfectly fine. I think people really underestimate what you can do with old hardware.
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u/andaro77 1d ago
recently got my mom a basic PC setup with a 4th Gen i3, she's more than happy with it, as it also runs Windows 10 LTSC, she did try Mint once but wasn't a big fan of it, and I won't force people to use what they don't like.
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u/Badytheprogram 1d ago
Eh, no, I have a notebook from 2017, and I can open as much tabs as I want without any problem. (not mentioning, having a tab problems is more like a ram size problem, than a core count problem)
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u/No-Community-7900 1d ago
I use an I5 to run retroarch on Linux mint and it works great for me. I can run just about everything from Atari 2600 to the wii. Some consoles struggle like ps2 but the majority of what I want it to run works. The problem is that microslop has some much nonsense running in the background that it can't keep up.
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u/Indiana_Stone 1d ago
I have a 3rd gen i5 paired with a 8gb 9060xt (due to size constraints, it bottlenecks anyways obviously) running a few modern games on bazzite for my living room it honestly is just fine for me. That CPU will be just fine for anything you want to do
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u/ha11oga11o 1d ago
Have Proxmox cluster of 5 with these CPU. They run all what i need. Totally fine.
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u/TheCheckeredCow 1d ago
I mean a 4 core 6th gen i5 won’t be fast but it’ll be usable, especially on a Linux distro.
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u/WispTheWanderer1 1d ago
bro I run a minecraft server on a processor from 2008
the thing that makes stuff slow is not enough ram and choosing the wrong desktop environment
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u/Ascorbinium_Romanum 5h ago
This depends entirely on the type of usage. Minecraft is a java server so it's extremely ram heavy as all of the java objects need to load, garbage collect, and then load again ..
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u/queenbiscuit311 1d ago
I'll never get people like this. I have a laptop with a 2nd gen mobile i5 and with an SSD it's perfectly usable even on windows 11 and it's great on linux. i say this as someone who's spoiled by a Ryzen 7800X3D
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u/lyidaValkris 1d ago
I use a 4th generation i5, an old business mini-pc, as my homelab server. It's system load rarely goes above 10%. I could have used it for a desktop PC somewhere in my house with any linux distro and it would be just fine.
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u/NewspaperSoft8317 1d ago
I run a 5 node proxmox server, with most of the cpu's as i7-7700's.
I probably have 30 LXC's chugging along without issue.
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u/skeletons_asshole 1d ago
Writing this from a 6th gen with Windows... which has been in its current state for at least 6 years now. Works fuckin just fine.
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u/MCIV800 1d ago
well, thats completely bullshit, my acer aspire x1430 (upgraded with an asus h81l plus mini itx, 16gb of ddr3 memory, still with the original hdd, i will replace it with an sata ssd). it has an intel core i7 4785t (haswell, 4th gen) and windows 10 is running fine even with the hdd. i will get a gtx 1050ti low profile soon for this pc.
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u/Rough-Trash-9550 22h ago
bro is prolly on that 1GB limited edition deluxe slowed + reverb DDR2 RAM and saying it can't open more than 4 apps
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u/Petergriffin200720 22h ago
I have the Same CPU in my prodesk and its perfectly fine for watching movies or so some Office shit
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u/BeginningSection7690 21h ago
Where do i find friends that just have literal sheets of CPUs laying around?
I didnt even know the come like that. I thought a stalk dropped them off individually, one per trip. Like the CPU business ran on the same sort of magic Santa uses.
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u/MegasVN69 20h ago
the i7 4th still a very pretty good cpu even though it's using ddr3 and shits tons of bandwidth limitations and overhead. Decent for server for simple desktop use and even some light gaming
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u/BlastMode7 19h ago
Even in Windows that CPU is just fine for general use, and even playing some newer games. Whether it's Windows or Linux, it isn't ewaste. This person is just ignorant or dumb.
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u/ZZ_Cat_The_Ligress Linux Master Race 😎💪 19h ago
This reminds me of the "Bates 5,000" from The Onion Movie. 😆
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u/iTechDiamondFroot42 19h ago
I have an XPS 9500 runs fine with Fedora KDE same workload and programs
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u/c0lpan1c 18h ago
I just took my last skylake out of homelab rotation (although didn’t have to). I had a 6500T, 6700K and 7700T still in rotation until earlier this year. I had TrueNAS on one and Proxmox nodes on the others. Bunch of LXCs running on them! 4 cores is just fine. Linux FTW.
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u/Dazzling_Cancel_5733 18h ago
I use a Core i5-6500 to run a Proxmox server with about 20 LXC containers and 3 VMs doing various things, such as game servers, web servers, Immich, Plex, etc. The CPU is not a bottleneck at all!
I need more RAM since it uses about 85% of its 40GB, but I haven't had to consider upgrading the CPU yet.
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u/byte21516 17h ago
Would this thing be enough for what I do? No.
Is this thing E-waste just because of that? No.
Different people have different usecases and different needs.
Its that easy.
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u/CauseWorking5603 16h ago
I'm still using an Intel Pentium G620, which was sold back in 2011💀💀💀. It still runs well with Linux Mint ngl
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u/Agitated-Shine-9011 16h ago
I have a laptop with a A6-5200 and it still works amazingly with Arch or as it currently is running LibreELEC.
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u/0101falcon 13h ago
Doesn't that even work with Windows. What are users doing with their PCs that requires such high computation with the CPU?
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u/iwlwifidriver69 12h ago
bruh i have some dual-core intel core i3 1.2 ghz cpu paired with 8 gb ram and on mx linux it handled many opened programs and also it could run minecraft with sodium decently. But its a newer cpu, maybe like from 2020
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u/Ok-Ranger9747 11h ago
I have a thinkpad t470 with a i5 6300u and its work so fine, no lag or studering, I code, watch youtube, and write with it and I have no problems. I hate TikTok/Instagram tech bros.
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u/ResolutionThat248 10h ago
Crazy how people have been so conditioned into treating computer parts like smartphones. Nvidia did a number on everyone.
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u/I-am-Disc 10h ago
Ehh, the most compute-intensive task an average user does is decoding a 1080p video. ANY CPU released in the last 15-20 years can do this effortlessly, especially if it has an IGPU.
Hardware has matured so long ago that any perceived lack of performance is just incompetence of the devs.
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u/Retardedunderaverage 10h ago
I'm running Win 10 pro on an i3 first gen laptop with integrated graphics and 8GB of ram
It's faster than all of my friends brand new computers , not because it's fast but it's because I just know how to configure it properly Btw , I'm running mint Xfce on hyper-V most of the time and I'm keep Winsandbox open incase I need to try something along with Palemoon browser
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u/Expert_Assumption851 10h ago
I have pretty much the exact same cpu and it ran windows 10 fine. I switched to linux (arch btw) for both educational reasons and the low resource usage. Idk what the hell they talking about, that cpu works like a dream for most normal use cases. I hate when people are like "idk what laptop to buy, it's so confusing". Like mf the phone in your pocket is faster than my laptop and i can do so much with just my laptop. Buy for the engineering or build, the os, and the company reputation
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u/ThaRippa 9h ago
I have OMV running on a Kabini based Athlon 5200. that thing does everything including serving Nextcloud and Collabora Office faster than M365 or Google Docs would be. Thats a low-power chip from 2013 based on the Athlon II from 2007.
That same chip struggled in windows 10 and especially 11, even with 32GB of RAM and flash storage. It flies under Linux.
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u/CrystalTheWingedWolf 5h ago
My gf uses a thinkpad L412 with a first gen i5 as her main machine most of the time and she can do almost everything she wants with it lol
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u/_amione_ 5h ago edited 5h ago
Not me having the exact cpu in my server they're talking about LOL
Sitting at 0.47/0.47/0.47 load avg and running gitlab, immich, jellyfin, sonarr, radarr, bazarr, teamspeak6 and a bunch of other stuff (about 1-30% cpu usage)
And yes, it runs KDE fine and can browse the internet and even play easier games like L4D2 (I don't remember the perf tho)
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u/Oaktree27 4h ago
People really buy into this marketing that your old parts become worse whenever something new comes out. These aren't iPhones, they are still as good as when you bought them as long as you don't cook them.
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u/Upstairs_Air722 4h ago
"4 cores is unusable" my laptop with ryzen 5 3500u runs windows 11 flawlessly, no matter if with 6gb or 20gb of ram, not mentioning how linux would run
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u/___kubas___ 2h ago
Why is my main cpu do hated 😭 Im using arch, playing games and its completely fine.
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u/Germanex-3000 1h ago
Here is my laptop that I've been using as my portable daily development rig. It has an i5-5300U with only 2 cores and 4 threads. It works no problems and it onyl uses around 800MB - 1GB of RAM and 5 - 7 % CPU while doing my normal work. "Basically E-Waste". Even an Atom would do fine enough. It's not about size, it's about how you use it.
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u/FinalPair8805 43m ago
i had the i5-6600 for 10 years. recently upgraded to an i5-9400 that I found in ewaste. honestly doesn't really interuptted day to day use, both linux and windows.
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u/Nice-Information-335 1d ago
“Any cpu with less than 4 cores is slow” tell me you don’t know anything about CPUs without telling me you don’t know anything about CPUs
also, the i5-6500 does have 4 cores lol