Re: Question about Guix documentation

[swedebugia]

On 2018-12-03 00:39, Laura Lazzati wrote:
> > 1GB of RAM? That is a *lot* :)
> > I have 2 GB on my 2 day-to-day laptops. 1 with GNOME3 GuixSD and 1 with
> > Parabola+MATE. Both work fine and I rarely have to wait for other
> > programs than the really heavy ones (Libreoffice comes to mind).
> Oh no! my retroPC is fancy :O and I did not know :) I was going to add
> that I did almost up to 4th year of university with it but felt
> ashamed. I guess you know where the name  MATE comes from ;), it is at
> the end of the site. I will check the processor. because I don't
> remember how many cores it has.

Actually what makes a bigger difference than CPU speed/number of cores 
is the hdd/ssd speed. Because of the heavy store/hardlinking/profile 
generation hooks etc. Guix is quite disk I/O intensive.

So installing ssd in your old laptop would probably speed things up. 
They are cheep these days and you can get away with buying a small one 
for little money 32Gb is enough if you trim generations and run guix gc 
regularly).

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