Years ago already when it came to a choice between KDE (kontrol) and konfigurability vs Gnome simplicity I took the Gnome road in my Linux journey. Otherwise, apart from that, just a general browsing, email, social-media, discord etc, streaming - no heavy-duty cpu/gpu video editing and such.Īt some point, it became more important to be productive than to tweak the OS. If as an alternative I can run said applications through wine then that might do it for now. I've put that on the backburner for now and working with this compromised solution as best as I can. Initially, I was looking to buy a new computer with a recent processor and 32gb RAM with the intention of running Virtualbox in order to run windows in order to access certain windows-centric applications. The question really comes down to what you intend to use it for.

I do hope the hardware is still fine and just needed a gnu/Linux upgrade

It kept it upgraded to osx Catalina and worked fine over the years but suddenly or not so suddenly but perceptively eventually became undeniably clear that it was starting to flow like molasses. Not entirely sure though whether the CPU or perhaps the hard drive or combination of things is falling apart.

Your Mac Mini has plenty of horsepower for a desktop computer Thank you, for your response: appreciate it.

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