(July 18, 2018 at 1:17 pm)Succubus Wrote:(July 18, 2018 at 12:59 pm)alpha male Wrote: I'm picking this guy up today. On Monday it was discounted to $650.
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/dell-inspir...Id=5872507
I've searched and found a few pages that discuss optimizing a new Windows 10 laptop. Just wondering if anyone here has tips from personal experience. Thanks.
Intel Core i5 + 256GB Solid State Drive. That thing is fast.
Now how to optimise the thing?
Easy.
Linux Mint = yuck. Dunno how anyone could support them after their inexcusable security debacle a few years ago ("let's store our .iso's on the same server as our unpatched, barely maintained WordPress site!"), and how unstable and insecure their systems tend to get because they simply blacklist packages rather than work with upstream to fix them. If you're going to go with Debian-flavored linux, grab one of the Ubuntus, or even just straight Debian if you want a more 'pure' experience.
Or, if Arch doesn't scare you, grab Manjaro. It does what Mint claims to do (good user experience, stable system), but follows a rolling release model, and is almost bleeding edge because the maintainers work with upstream to ensure compatibility and stability. In my experience, Manjaro is only a week or so behind Arch proper. In a lot of cases, less.
If I had to recommend a daily driver that just gets the job done, it'd be Manjaro.
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To alpha, the best thing you can do is remove the bloatware new systems tend to come with and go through your startup programs and disable anything you don't need running from the start. I got a new Dell laptop myself earlier this year (a 2017 XPS 13), and the worst offenders re: performance were Dell's own apps. I mean, on a device with an i7 and 8GB RAM, my CPU was maxed out right out of the box. It was ridiculous. Removing those apps brought the percentage down into the teens.
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