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my Laptop feels 5 times faster after today's Debian/testing update!!!



!THANK YOU! Thank You Debian Developers!

My Laptop feels 5 times faster after today's Debian/testing update!!!

My old laptop running on Debian/testing since the update from today flies like a rocket!! It before was fine, I didn't feel any need to upgrade the hardware. Concerning its responsiveness I attributed small delays to my WiFi connection being slow because of being far away from the WLAN router, and the rest because of running my OS off from an USB-Stick. But now I see three superb effects: all apps in general appear to start up much faster, like at triple speed, contents in the RIOT messenger and in the Firefox browser load at least at fivefold speed, and all screen rendering, bang, it simply bursts onto the screen!

It is most likely the fortunate combination of various packages which all became updated today!

It will not be the kernel. The kernel upgrade from today is not the one addressing the version which is actively running. For the web browsing (download and rendering of pages) there could be an effect by the upgrade to Firefox v78. But this would not explain the significantly increased speed observed also for all other applications. I am pretty sure that these two updates have boosted my felt system speed significantly:
modemmanager
mesa-vulkan-drivers

/var/log/apt/history.log
Start-Date: 2020-07-01  21:55:32
Commandline: apt upgrade
Requested-By: XXXXXXXX (1000)
Install: linux-image-5.7.0-1-amd64:amd64 (5.7.6-1, automatic)
Upgrade: libegl-mesa0:amd64 (20.1.1-1, 20.1.2-1), libglapi-mesa:amd64 (20.1.1-1, 20.1.2-1), flatpak:amd64 (1.6.3-1, 1.8.0-1), libxatracker2:amd64 (20.1.1-1, 20.1.2-1), libgbm1:amd64 (20.1.1-1, 20.1.2-1), fonts-firacode:amd64 (5.2+dfsg1-1, 5.2+dfsg1-2), linux-image-amd64:amd64 (5.6.14-2, 5.7.6-1), libmm-glib0:amd64 (1.12.10-0.2, 1.14.0-0.1), libgl1-mesa-dri:amd64 (20.1.1-1, 20.1.2-1), firefox:amd64 (77.0-1, 78.0-1), modemmanager:amd64 (1.12.10-0.2, 1.14.0-0.1), libglibmm-2.4-1v5:amd64 (2.64.2-1, 2.64.2-2), libhunspell-1.7-0:amd64 (1.7.0-2+b1, 1.7.0-3), mesa-vulkan-drivers:amd64 (20.1.1-1, 20.1.2-1), libglx-mesa0:amd64 (20.1.1-1, 20.1.2-1)
End-Date: 2020-07-01  21:57:49


GREAT!!!!!  GREAT!!!!!  GREAT!!!!!  GREAT!!!!!
!THANK YOU! Thank You Debian Developers!
Marco



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