MX 19.1

[tenmm57]

I'm new to MX and I'm running 18.3 on an old HP dual core i5 laptop with 8 gigs of ram. It is slow to boot (Windows 95 slow) but everything works well and the only problem I have is lack of knowledge. I see everyone posting about 19.1 and I'm curious if I should upgrade. I haven't started researching on how to upgrade, just wanted to know if it would be worth it.

Thanks,
tenmm57

[jeffreyC]

I have an Asus with an i5 and 4gb of RAM, it boots MX-18.3 pretty quickly, though a few seconds slower than an i7 with 16gb.

Do you have an SSD or an HDD?

19.1 will probably not speed up your boot that much, if at all.

[richb]

The Blog post may help you decide.

https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-19-1-now-available/

[seaken64]

Yes, 19.1 is the latest. If you have no need to stay with 18.3 I would upgrade. That processor and RAM will be fine for 19.1. I run it on a lot less. But you should investigate an SSD drive to replace your old spinning hard drive.

You can run it from a LiveUSB to check that it runs good on your hardware.

Seaken64

[tenmm57]

I have an Asus with an i5 and 4gb of RAM, it boots MX-18.3 pretty quickly, though a few seconds slower than an i7 with 16gb.

Do you have an SSD or an HDD?

19.1 will probably not speed up your boot that much, if at all.

jeffreyC, I have a HDD, I use this laptop just to try out different Linux distros. To date MX Linux is my second favorite, I use Linux Mint/Windows 10 on my work laptop.

[asqwerth]

I'm new to MX and I'm running 18.3 on an old HP dual core i5 laptop with 8 gigs of ram. It is slow to boot (Windows 95 slow) ....
Thanks,
tenmm57

How slow is slow? Just to make sure we're on the same page.

[JayM]

I have an old (circa 2010) HP Pavilion laptop with a first generation Core 15 dual core CPU, a 500GB HDD and 4GB of RAM and MX-19 (19.1 now after the recent upgrades) runs quite well on it as long as I don't run a lot of virtual machines due to its RAM limitations. I could even do that if I had 8GB which is the maximum it can address.

Compared to my octacore desktop with 16GB RAM and an SSD it's slow, but compared to my 32-bit netbook with a 1.6GHz single core Atom CPU and 2GB RAM it's fast. So it depends on what you're comparing it to and what you're used to using. I just tell myself that I'm spoiled by how fast my "new" (all the components are actually several years old except for the SSDs, case and PSU but I built it in November) desktop is. The HP is perfectly fine even as a daily driver computer though. I'd used it every day for months prior to putting the desktop together and was very happy with it. (Even the netbook can run MX. You just can't be in too much of a hurry is all. It's faster with Fluxbox instead of Xfce though.)

If you're coming from a newer laptop with a later-generation processor and faster/more RAM those older machines are going to feel slow by comparison but they are what they are, and they're still perfectly usable just the same. You just can't expect them to boot to your desktop in a few seconds.

[tenmm57]

How slow is slow? Just to make sure we're on the same page.
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OK, I'll admit I'm spoiled. My work laptop will boot into Linux Mint in about 15 seconds and about the same booting into Windows. It takes my MX linux laptop about 1 minute 10 seconds give or take a few seconds. That's really not a long time, it just seems like forever.

[asqwerth]

You should post the output of

inxi - F

For both machines in this thread so a comparison of hardware can be made. Also it'll help establish if 1.1 to 1.2 mins boot up is reasonable for your home machine.

Are we talking bootup to login screen, or are you including the time to log in to the desktop?

[Stevo]

Booting from an SSD on the work laptop can make it that much faster...