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Re^3: Perl release v5.40.1 on a 32-bit box showing failed tests for atime and ctime in Time::HiResby cavac (Prior) |
on Mar 07, 2025 at 12:50 UTC ( [id://11164185]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Is this laptop running a 32bit-only processor? How old is it? I have a 14 to 15 year old laptop around that i still occasionally use. I run Xubuntu 22.04 LTS (64 bit) on it and it performs reasonably well. For me, the thing that makes modern Linux on older hardware work is selecting a Desktop environment that uses few resources but still has all the modern convenience. In my case, that's XFCE. It's highly configurable, and it got a decent terminal emulator (and if you need a high performance terminal, xterm is a good choice, at least for me terminal graphics demos). I'd recommend trying to run a few 64 bit Linux distris as live system from an USB stick to see if they boot. (X)Ubuntu also has a settings program usually called "Additional drivers" that, so far, hasn't let me down when it comes to supporting graphics cards.
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