On Sun, 03 Jun 2018 04:29:09 +0100, Roger Blake wrote:

On 2018-06-02, Mike Easter wrote:
16 G in a rig like this would be ridiculous. It would be better to
spend some money on a faster CPU. I have no idea how they are handling
the graphics.

Since it's Celeron-based, probably low-end Intel graphics. (Most Intel
graphics are well supported in Linux.)

Overall performance seemed to be OK for its intended purpose. For that
matter I have a couple of old Celeron-based netbooks with 2GB memory
and those run OK for light use with Lubuntu. They probably would run even
better with something really lightweight like Tiny Core.

Intel graphics is pretty horrid, but it seems to be catching up with discrete graphics cards which have pretty much stayed still for the last few years. I have a 4 year old Radeon R9 290. It cost me £290 back then. If I paid £330 now I'd get a Radeon RX580, which is only 19% faster for single precision and 40% SLOWER for double precision. They're going backwards! It does use less electricity, so saves you a small amount of money on that and also needs less cooling so is quieter, but I'd expect some more speed for 4 years development work.

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