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KDE
From
Morningstarr@HOBBYSPC to
all on Sunday, May 10, 2026 16:02:54
I am trying out kde, I love gnome, but I figured I would give KDE a try. So far I like it. It's clean and elegant. It reminds me of Windows a lot more than Gnome does. I am not a fan of windows at all. KDE seems to be a little more responsive the Gnome. What opinions do you guys have over the two?
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From
Will-E@HOBBYSPC to
Morningstarr on Monday, May 11, 2026 11:26:53
Back when using Linux desktops KDE Plasma was pretty polished. I also like the look of SUSE but its more an enterprise style system.
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Will-E on Monday, May 11, 2026 14:14:49
The thing is it, is more snappy than gnome for some reason. That shouldn't be happening.
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From
Will-E@HOBBYSPC to
Morningstarr on Monday, May 11, 2026 17:04:23
Just update to an SSD and everything will be snappy
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From
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Will-E on Monday, May 11, 2026 17:05:17
I dont think this pc supports it lol...its really slow by the way
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From
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Morningstarr on Monday, May 11, 2026 17:08:50
Any PC will support a sata SSD. They are not as fast as an M.2 but it will still connect and work just fine.
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From
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Will-E on Monday, May 11, 2026 17:45:11
I think that drive speed is the most important thing, to load times, and overall speed. Those old drives, are slow! Now after you have everything cached in to ram in doesn't really matter.
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From
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Morningstarr on Monday, May 11, 2026 20:52:47
Well, have you seen the GPU Direct Access stuff? Seems pretty awesome how far computing has come since our first PC. My PC has a meaningless 128GB of RAM. I could run the whole OS in RAM and it would be snippy of I didn't have so many tabs open eating it all up :)
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From
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Will-E on Wednesday, May 13, 2026 12:57:23
Nah I haven't seen the gpu direct access stuff. I seen hard drives running on graphics cards. What is direct access?
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From
Will-E@HOBBYSPC to
Morningstarr on Wednesday, May 13, 2026 14:32:32
It allows network adapters and storage drives to directly read from and write to GPU memory, bypassing the CPU and reducing unnecessary memory copies. This results in improved performance, especially in data-intensive applications such as AI, HPC, and data analytics
https://docs.nvidia.com/gpudirect-storage/overview-guide/index.html
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Will-E on Wednesday, May 13, 2026 16:41:03
A GPU and CPU are built for different tasks. It just seems crazy that the GPU is stomping, processors in tasks. Why can't the CPUs keep pace with GPUs? Graphics processors have teraflops, and I think processors are just now reaching a teraflop.
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