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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

How is fedora that slow? Is it due to btrfs? Is tracker running in the background?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

I run fedora on a 2009 thinkpad and it’s fast. I’m surprised NixOS is that much faster.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

No idea… a real bummer but I am grateful I could not get it to run smoothly as it pushed me to eventually land on NixOS