I was wiping this old laptop to sell or give it away. Couldn’t resist putting Fedora Silverblue on it to try it out. It’s very slow but I was able to check my e-mails in the browser, big win.
Oh wow, I just thought to myself “this isn’t so old”.
The real old hardware here is me.
Now do a rebase to the KDE version and see how it works compared to Gnome
Not that different, I tried. Animation smoothness is slightly better on gnome, apps startup times were slightly better on KDE this is more of qt6 vs gtk than DE difference.
Looks great! How does Fedora Silverblue do with hardware with such low specs? Been trying to find a good replacement OS for a machine around that age and was considering going with FSB but was worried it would be too heavy on the system.
For actually using the machine I would go with another Fedora Atomic distribution, such as Sway, or the XFCE or LXQt Fedora Desktops.
Appart from being a bit slow because of full fat Gnome it was very nice and usable.
10.42.0.0/16? How saturated is your network that you need a /16?
Then I can have fun stuff like
10.42.0.Xare static IPs for known devices, and10.42.1.Xis DHCP addresses for unknown devices. This is also only one subnet, I have quite a few for management, IoT stuff, guest network, work devices.Anyway my network is ipv6 now. Sadly
fastfetchdoesn’t show it, though I’d have to censor it to avoid doxxing my prefix.Way too big of a broadcast domain. You’d start having perf issues if you were doing anything serious that would remotely come close to using even a fraction of the subnet.
I keep all my work stuff /22 or smaller typically. I struggle to see anyone needing anything more than /24 for home usage, and /23 for even the grandest of home lab setups if you didn’t subnet anything. The amount of random shit broadcasting is pretty nuts.
My setups are often lazy. I usually use one subnet, set my dhcp server to only hand out things starting from .100 and never run out of static assignments that way. Using a separate subnet means all your shit has to go through a layer 3 device even if they’re on an unmanaged switch or hub somewhere down the line.
Also I thought broadcasts only went to connected devices. Aka having a big subnet with 20 devices will have the same performance as a tiny subnet with 20 devices. Does the size of the subnet really make a difference, or is it only the number of actual devices?
I didn’t know there was a performance penalty to having big subnets. I’ll have to look it up and shrink them.
But this is relatively moot since all my devices talk via ipv6 now. The only thing without ipv6 support I have is Mikrotik devices that only expose their management interfaces over ipv4. Anyway these are only in one VLAN, the management one.
I have… hundreds… of miktrotik devices. They’re little wireless gateway white box looking ones. lol
We use them on a production floor to wirelessly connect automation equipment for videojet labeling and data collection. Wired hasn’t been great because of the environment and the fact the clowns leave the waterproof cases they live in open for some incomprehensible reason.
I can’t really give you any advice for ipv6 though.
Ah I misspoke. I have different VLANs, not just subnets. So nothing really goes through layer 3 to talk across subnets, as nothing is allowed to go from one VLAN to another. I use them to split the networks between devices that should not talk to each other.
Consider xfce
I recently switched an old dell latitude from kde to xfce and it’s noticeably quicker
Edit: kde recognized the dual nvidia card and xfce doesn’t but I’m 99% it’s fixable I just don’t have the time or need rn
I put xfce on an old dell optiplex I liberated from the throwaway pile at work. I use it to watch videos on my TV.
Yeah I usually ran XFCE on my old laptops. But this one was wiped immediately after this. Just wanted to see full fat Fedora in action, with all the modern stuff like Wayland.
Nice, yeah I was hoping wayland kde would just work because it is quite efficient now but nope…I mean I guess it’s usable if you don’t mind the constant waits lol
