Now I completely disagree with this. Slower is slower, no matter the hardware. On newest hardware faster stuff still will be faster and power consumption will be lower. Some slowdown can be justified (for example when it’s related to critical security or the amount of installed apps) but saying that it’s the hardware is completely ridiculous unless the hardware has to emulate unsupported calls or something like that.
Btw, I’d be interested in knowing just how long “long time to boot” is, is it even longer than a minute or two, which would be serviceable on hardware that ancient imo?
Around 90 seconds on the 8 gb machine I’d say. Imo it’s extremely long. I don’t remember the boot time on the faster 4 gb machine but I remember that using an alternative init system increased the speed to one comparable with my gaming system with an NVMe SSD and Windows 11. And that is on an HDD-only machine. I think it’s very impressive.
It obviously also depends on the amount of services activated but the difference was massive so I think installing way more stuff wouldn’t slow it down to the systemd level.
Honestly 90sec isn’t that bad for old hardware like that, and whether you agree with using the appropriate software for your old hardware or not, it’s still a thing. This is a you problem for sure.
Now I completely disagree with this. Slower is slower, no matter the hardware. On newest hardware faster stuff still will be faster and power consumption will be lower. Some slowdown can be justified (for example when it’s related to critical security or the amount of installed apps) but saying that it’s the hardware is completely ridiculous unless the hardware has to emulate unsupported calls or something like that.
Around 90 seconds on the 8 gb machine I’d say. Imo it’s extremely long. I don’t remember the boot time on the faster 4 gb machine but I remember that using an alternative init system increased the speed to one comparable with my gaming system with an NVMe SSD and Windows 11. And that is on an HDD-only machine. I think it’s very impressive.
It obviously also depends on the amount of services activated but the difference was massive so I think installing way more stuff wouldn’t slow it down to the systemd level.
Honestly 90sec isn’t that bad for old hardware like that, and whether you agree with using the appropriate software for your old hardware or not, it’s still a thing. This is a you problem for sure.