Comment by 🚀 stack
Re: "🖥️ Reusing Old Computers with Arch Linux and DWM"
I think Intel has slowed x86 chips down while counteracting heart bleed or something like that
Apr 05 · 5 weeks ago
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👻 darkghost · Apr 05 at 20:25:
Whoa.
The CPU in this laptop is not affected by meldown and spectre so the mitigations are not enabled.
The default debian kernel has many features compiled in so it is more code to execute compare to the kernel from 2005 with less features.
Running htop takes 10% of the CPU.
God. is it a P4?
It is Pentium M processor, so P4 for laptops.
— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_M
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🖥️ Reusing Old Computers with Arch Linux and DWM — Old computers don't need to die. They just need less. This is where Arch Linux and DWM come in. In 2026, reclaiming an old machine with Arch Linux and DWM means getting back a truly personal computer again. Instead of a locked-down, resource-hungry system deciding how your hardware is used, you run something minimal, transparent, and entirely under your control. Even aging hardware becomes fast, responsive, and distraction free - not because…