I’ve switched to using an old device I had; it’s quite weak—at least by my standards. Its specifications are: 2 cores, 4 threads, and 16 GB of RAM. It’s my primary device at the moment; it’s functional, but it’s slow most of the time. While it is usable, let’s be realistic—I need more speed. There…

If you think you have enough RAM for your particular needs, you could reduce swapping and logging, and disable unnecessary services. You could even try using a more lightweight file system (e.g. ext3 instead of ext4). What is the best way to create a music cube with the lowest possible processing …

[image] qubist: You should probably explain what that means… … it can be as simple as an mpv player or a whole audio editing suite. What I mean is playing an MP3 file. I was going to use VLC, but if there’s a lighter one, that’s fine. [image] qubist: BTW, I don’t think you can use 4 thr…

[image] Ahmed_iMafraid: [image] qubist: You should probably explain what that means, e.g. what particular software will run in the cube, what are its requirements… and what is a “music cube” - it can be as simple as an mpv player or a whole audio editing suite. What I mean is playing an M…

Check this: [image] Improving video playback speed? General Try mpv --vo=x11 --profile=sw-fast --vo=x11 is the most important part. [image] Why are updates forcing the grub smt=off option? General This is one of the…

What are the Qubes OS settings (and individual Qubes) that offer the best performance on a weak processor?

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