Anecdotically I'm using it since about 2 years on obsolete Kaby Lake Core i5 7500T & Core i7 7700T @35Watts in 1 liter Lenovo Thinkcentres (M910q tiny). Which have integrated HD630 Graphics.

Under Plasma/KDE. I just followed their defaults in the installer, which at the time were BTRFS for the filesystem, whith systemd-boot, and everything wen't well. The only thing which I would have done differently in hindsight would be the boot partition at 2GB, which seems wasteful when only about 50MB are ever used. But shrug?

What else, hrrm, the stuff is mostly clocked down to 800Mhz, because of the chosen scheduler, in spite of this nothing ever lags. Though the systems have 32GB RAM, that should help with that.

It's really smooth, even on that old 'crap', even mostly clocked down.

I also had it never crash on me with anything, neither single applications, or system hangs.

After upgrading with pacman -Syu I immediately clear the package cache with pacman -Scc, because I never ever needed that.

At the moment I'm considering to remove the pacman hooks into btrfs-snapshots, because I never needed them either. Seems like cargo-cult to me :-)

I also let it bitrot for up to 150 days, meaning no updates whatsover, and then lifting it up in one accumulated rush. Effortlessly. In the past, because I've been lazy and couldn't be bothered. Lately more often :-)

I didn't reboot in these long phases without updates. Just suspend to RAM. Which works every single time. And the system stayed always responsive.

Their ZRAM setup is usable by default. No fiddling necessary.

With this stability I dared to activate https://github.com/graysky2/profile-sync-daemon / https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Profile-sync-daemon and never had any trouble with it so far.

At the moment I'm having fun discovering a new world of audio experience with https://github.com/wwmm/easyeffects

How could I live without that?!

(Don't worry, cores stay at 800Mhz with that playing YT in FF, or watching a movie with MPV)

At least on my hardware it's the DREAM.

Oh. Did I mention I don't game at all? With the exception of maybe some Freeciv in the browser...

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