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



On Wednesday, 1 July 2020 23:16:47 CEST Marco Möller wrote:
> !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
The support for your graphic chip must be improved with the upgrade

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