[UFO Chicago] Wayland, Fedora 42 and memory needs

[Brian Sobolak]

On 8/14/2025 12:48 PM, eviljoel wrote:
> 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.

Thanks!   I have to get under the hood, which I haven't tried yet.  The 
machine only has a VGA, no wifi or bluetooth, so it's probably 2x2, not 
1x4.  But I'll check.


> 
> 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.

This was one of the things that caused me to post -- it crashed when I 
had GNOME running and VNC (and probably a few other things; I can't say 
I was paying close attention)

> 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.

Yes, I never get the terminology right with XWindows stuff.  Thanks for 
clarifying.  GNOME is the most likely culprit here.

Thanks for your help!

brian


> - 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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