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NixOS resuscitated a 2012 Macbook Air. This thing flies! I was NOT expecting that at all (lemmy.ml)

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As per title, I am mind-blown by the speed and stability of NixOS on this "relic" in IT terms... On this machine i tested:

Distro	Performance
Fedora	MEGA slow
Ubuntu	OKish
LDME	Fast
Debian	Fast
NixOS	VERY Fast

And the best thing is that I can bring this config with me on any computer! Oh boy, I think i have fallen in love with NixOS

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[–] avieshek 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I have a Mid-2012 MacBook Pro, got 16GB RAM but still a spinning hard drive. How does it compare to Pop!_OS?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I guess PopOS performs like vanilla mint or like Ubuntu. NixOS feels very snappy even on Gnome on a 8gb machine from bloody 2012

[–] avieshek 1 points 1 month ago

Would you like the point some differences like inteface (UI-UX), driver support, features, performance etc?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I've ran both pop_os and nixos on the same laptop, albeit a newer laptop, and they felt the same to me performance wise. My experience is that if they're using the same kernel, same init system, same desktop env, etc they'll prob feel the same

[–] TBi 1 points 1 month ago

Get an SSD. Makes a massive difference