On Sat, Aug 02 2025, Ian Eure <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Greg, > > Greg Farough <[email protected]> writes: > >> On Thu, Jul 31 2025, MGD <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Dear Guix Community, >>> >>> I hope this message finds you well. I'm currently setting up Guix >>> on >>> my Lenovo X220 laptop and would greatly appreciate any guidance or >>> tips for optimizing performance on older hardware. >> >> In my experience, the difficult part is the guix pull. Older >> machines >> like my X200 can only barely (and only sometimes) manage it without >> overheating. > > These older machines will certainly get hot, but shoudn’t *overheat*, > even under heavy load. By "overheat," I mean going into thermal > shutdown, which will immediately power off the machine, or sometimes > restart it. Simply getting hot, even very hot, is normal. As long as > it’s still running, it’s not overheating.
Yes, thanks for reminding me. I usually shy away from these things given how rare the X200 has gotten these days, but maybe it's time to give it a try. -g -- "I want the freedom and the Guile."
