A few years ago I doggedly tried to switch to Nyxt for everyday use. I really liked the concept, but at the time, it was too buggy, and constantly crashed on me. I'm going give it another shot.
Nyxt is very promising, and I hope it gains momentum. The obvious advantage of Nyxt is programmability and keyboard-driven workflows.
However, I use old hardware, and it's a bit slow and laggy. Chromium behaves the same way, so I imagine this is due to WebKit and Blink being significantly heavier than Gecko.
Firefox is really snappy on old hardware, at least when running Linux, and uses a modest amount of memory.
Hmm for me on BSD it's the opposite. But every release something breaks in Firefox' GPU acceleration so I've kinda stopped trying to fix it. I assume chromium handles that better. Though I don't use it much.
What's considered old nowadays? My current desktop had some ~3Ghz AMD processor from ~2020, I don't even remember what it is. Maybe 16 GiB of memory. Runs Firefox and Jetbrains good enough that I've not had to consider upgrading. I use a Debian based distro.
Not GP, but I have an i5 from around 2015. 4 cores, no hyper threading), 32GB ram. And it's still good enough for most things. Adding ram and a decent SDD gave it many extra years.
In the prosess of switching it out completely now though.
What kind of work do you do with those specs? I have a machine from around the same period with similar upgrades and I feel that it really is good enough, especially if you don't play video games.
It's actually the machine I use when working from home and it works fine.
PyCharm IDE on a moderately big project. We've recently focused on moving towards fully type hinted code base, using pyright as the checker/LSP. Which means I use a good-enough-but-not-great plugin which makes pycharm use pyright instead of the buggy heuristic based built in type "engine". And this is noticeable slower, which is part of my motivation for upgrading.
Other part is to be able to play a few games. I could probably just upgrade my GPU, but I'm not sure if it's even possible (outdated PCI port on my MB I think) without getting something second hand.
Third part is that I want to play more with the new NLP technology which is rapidly reaching a point where it should be possible to do a lot of cool stuff. And I want as much as possible to run locally.
I had a similar CPU (i5 4690k) and it would have been good for a few more years, if not the 3080 I once bought after a fight with my wife. Old CPU was just slowing it too much.
Cool, thanks. So there is the flatpak version, the Electron version, and the GTK version? Is there an easy way to install the native GTK version on recent Debian(+backports)? Or only "make && make install"?
