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The reviews of Focal Fossa were impressive, many remarking on improved higher speed. OMG! Ubuntu reported on the work that went into the new version to make it run faster. As happy as I am with 18.04, the reviews of 20.04 gave me the nudge I needed to test the latest version. The improved speed was quite obvious to me on my first test of the distro running off of the USB drive and so I installed it onto my laptop.
My laptop is an eight-and-a-half-year-old Lenovo T420 with the following specs: • ThinkPad-T420 3.7 GiB • Intel Core i5-2520M CPU @ 2.5GHz x4 • Intel HD Graphics 3000 (SNB GT2) • Ubuntu 20.04 LTS • Screen Resolution: 1366 x 768 • Build Date: September 2011
This computer is running quite well on Ubuntu 20.04; it is lacking nothing performance wise, and gives me no reason to consider a lightweight distro such as Xubuntu or Mate. I like both of those desktops; up until now I have been using Mate at home and at work.
If we make lightweight distros for older equipment, then how far back do we have to go now? My almost nine-year-old Lenovo is running just fine with the recently tweaked Ubuntu. As time goes on, the older computers eventually break and have to be replaced with newer and, of course, more powerful equipment. The 32-bit distro is dying off because there is so little hardware left to run it on.
Linux has diversity going for it, we have lots to choose from in desktop environments, and I hope that the diversity continues. I like Mate and Xubuntu; a patron in my library took one look at the Mate desktop on my screen and was very impressed with the professional appearance of Mate.
I am not saying the other desktop environments are no longer needed, or wanted, but the tweaking of Linux for older computer hardware may not be as necessary anymore and that could give our coders new outlets for their skills and creativity.
Linux use was given a boost when the hardware that could easily run it was appearing on the curb after people bought new computers. At this point, most of the Windows 7 based hardware is strong enough to run the current release of Ubuntu. We may have reached a similar point in the history of Linux.