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Could linux breathe new life into a busted toaster laptop like mine? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This thing has trouble running anything made past like 2012 and the newer emulators out there totally bust it. I tried recently running citra and it could barely hit 30%. Would switching over to linux lighten the load on the cpu and free it up so I could run more demanding games?

Also how is linux for emulation and gaming in general?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

yeah I don't know about proper gaming but I Linuxed my toaster laptop and gave it an SSD instead of an HDD, and it just about runs all the classic Valve games on low settings. Anything new would probably explode it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I should get an ssd

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Yep, definitely. Had some laptops similar to this in the fleet at work a while back and decided to do a mid-cycle refresh with SSDs instead of replacing them around the time the Samsung 750 SATA SSDs hit the market. Those machines ran better than new and lasted us until Skylake hit.