I recently installed NomadBSD on an older laptop I had lying around (it’s a mid-2010s model with 4GB RAM and a basic Intel processor). So far, it’s running pretty smoothly, but I am curious if anyone has some tips or tweaks to help optimize performance a bit more.
I am mostly using it for light tasks like web browsing, email, UiPath, and some coding, but I’d love to hear if there are any specific settings, packages, or configs that could help things run even smoother on this older hardware. And for the same I have been through these articles/resources NomadBSD extremely slowUiPath Installation that are quite informative. But I’d love to hear more from the community member.
Any advice or suggestions would be super appreciated!
A related question has already been discussed here recently. Firefox, Thunderbird, LibreOffice and GIMP are the most resource hungry. Do not replace them, just install Qutebrowser and similar slim alternatives for everyday use.
Yeah, I’m using the ufs version on a (unbranded/cheap) USB2 stick and USB2 port and Nomad runs fine on my 2014 4GB laptop. Radeon GPU isn’t correctly detected so I boot using the 7 7 1 1 option sequence to disable auto graphics detection (I know that I could disable that in /etc/rc.conf but I might use the usb in other PC’s). The standard as-is system runs fine, including Firefox.
Hi, Yes it’s works fine. You can do freebsd-update in a term to update the system. And look if you haven’t some cve by pkg audit -F . So it’s secure too . I have openjdk24 . My computer is an old MacOSX darwin update to High Sierra .
I know this might be an unusual choice but someone has to recommend it to you; since I discovered GNU Emacs myself, I never want to miss it on any device I install any *nix on.
It can be your simple basic text editor for writing and coding, your mail, newsgroup and RSS feed client or it can be as advanced as your organizing tracker via the built-in org package, VCS client for git via magit or its built-in VCS tooling packages or even your very own desktop environment thanks to EXWM (Emacs X11 Window Manager) and Edwina (dwm like window manager for emacs) packages which you can configure to your liking.
You even have the ability to install the Webkit engine into emacs and use it alongside Emacs’s built-in web browser eww to get a superb browsing experience with the emacs-webkit package. Oh hell you can even play games on Emacs!
You see that the world is your oyster and that you can replace every single task with this wolf in sheep mantle in form of a text editor. I can only highly recommend you check out Emacs, customize it to your liking and make it truly your own distribution of Emacs.
Add the Nix package manager from NixOS into the mix and now you have the perfect reproducible cross-platform dev setup you never want to miss on every of your machines.
Hope this was useful to you! Don’t forget to switch to the purple side of this world! See you on the other side!
Hi,
Yes I known Emacs is powerful . You can do your own macro too. It’s base on lisp.
I used to compile some java . There is a choose to do Emacs or Vim !
