[UFO Chicago] Wayland, Fedora 42 and memory needs

[eviljoel]

Hello Brian,

I see that runs DDR3 ram. How many slots are on your board and how many 
slots are occupied. When I get back from vacation, I can see if I have 
any spares sticks laying around.

If you have a swap file/partition configured and it is in frequent use, 
adding RAM will make a big difference. If you are not filling all your 
RAM, adding RAM will do nothing.

So, Wayland and Cinnamon both are not window managers. Wayland is a 
display server and Cinnamon is a desktop environment. You can run 
several desktop environments using Wayland. Gnome is certainly one of 
them but there are others. Cinnamon has experimental support for 
Wayland. The other big display server is X.Org. My guess is you are 
using Gnome as your desktop environment.

- eviljoel

On 8/14/25 11:37, Brian Sobolak wrote:
> 
> Hola everyone -- it's been awhile :-)
> 
> I recently came into an older PC that I've repurposed for a Fedora 42 
> workstation.  My issue is that the UI is pretty slow.  It's a Dell 
> Optiplex 780 -- which is probably 10+ years old -- and only has 4gb of RAM.
> 
> My question is -- is it worth the $30 to try and upgrade the memory, or 
> is Wayland likely to be slow on 8gb?
> 
> I realize I can also switch window managers (probably Cinnamon?) but was 
> enjoying Wayland.  Thoughts?
> 
> brian
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