New OSes get bloated all the time, Linux included. Here I was testing a ancient C50 CPU and in recent versions of Ubuntu (above 18), Firefox 92 took over 20s to start, ON A SSD!! Opening the simple Wikipedia homepage took over 8 seconds. I decided to go back and discovered that on 14.04, Firefox 66 starts in 5 seconds and opens the page in half the time.
I for one would like to force developers to run under-powered machines on a daily basis, so the brute force approach wasn't used so frequently to resolve bad code.
Now the rant is over, I like to congratulate the devs helping to keep old and useful ATI/AMD hardware alive. Nvidia cards don't have the same driver longevity.
I for one would like to force developers to run under-powered machines on a daily basis, so the brute force approach wasn't used so frequently to resolve bad code.
Now the rant is over, I like to congratulate the devs helping to keep old and useful ATI/AMD hardware alive. Nvidia cards don't have the same driver longevity.
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