Link for the video?
As a general rule of thumb, I've been told that anything less than a 50% performance boost is hardly noticeable.
I've also heard (but ready to stand corrected) that mitigation costs only about 10% CPU (depending on the CPU).
I don't get out of bed for a 10% performance boost.
I've been using a Dell XPS L502X with fedora since it was delivered 10/8/2011. No real problems, but I recently moved to voidlinux and almost doubled my battery life. Dell put quite a lot of time into supporting linux.
If you want to try living without systemd, take a look at voidlinux - it uses runit instead. I made the jump from Fedora recently and I love it! Linux is once again the unix system I loved for 40+ years - it's rational, easy to understand and just works! As an added bonus, I do believe I get about 50% more life out of the battery (less busy-work going on?). What do I miss from systemd? Nothing really.
I've just bounced into voidlinux and I'm very impressed by how complete* it is and how snappy. So that's not a very objective measure, but my (old) battery life has jumped from 1.5h on fedora-38 to 2h+ under void (very similar workload). I think that's an indication of how light-on the hardware the OS is - perhaps it's because it's not running systemd. If you're looking to squeeze more out of your hardware, take a look at void!
* the only thing missing from my manifest is mythtv - firefox, libreoffice, emacs syncthing etc and it's all the latest
Rock solid on my 11-yo laptop that has been running fedora and updated every 6 months since I bought it in 2012.
I've always updated late in the fedora cycle - maybe that's the go.
I generally use mpv+yt-dlp from the CLI (once I have a URL). Often I use youtube-tldr (google it) to get a summary of a page - maybe you have noticed /s that youtube videos often take 10-15 minutess to get across one simple point!!
Sorry for delayed response, just getting used to lemmy ...
No, I don't see comments - if I'm interested in the headline, I press 'b' to pop up the full item in my browser.
Yes, I subscribe to communities like this:
(use-package elfeed
:bind (:map elfeed-search-mode-map
("s" . elfeed-search-set-filter)
("S" . elfeed-search-live-filter))
:config (setf elfeed-sort-order 'ascending))
;; elfeed-dashboard is a nice add-on
(use-package elfeed-dashboard
:ensure t
:bind ("C-x w" . 'elfeed-dashboard)
:config
(setq elfeed-dashboard-file "~/.config/emacs/elfeed-dashboard.org")
;; update feed counts on elfeed-quit
(advice-add 'elfeed-search-quit-window :after #'elfeed-dashboard-update-links))
(setq elfeed-feeds '(
("http://xkcd.com/rss.xml" comic xkcd)
("http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotMain" slashdot)
("https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/new/.rss?sort=new" reddit emacs)
("https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/new/.rss?sort=new" reddit linux)
("https://rss.beehiiv.com/feeds/iiTciQgHPG.xml" fossweekly linux)
("https://distrowatch.com/news/dw.xml" news distrowatch linux)
("http://oglaf.com/feeds/rss/" comic oglaf)
("https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/new/.rss?sort=new" reddit linuxquestions)
("https://www.reddit.com/r/fedora/new/.rss?sort=new" reddit fedora)
("https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml" news bbc)
("https://www.rt.com/rss/" news rt)
("https://hnrss.org/frontpage?count=100" news hacker)
("https://www.reddit.com/r/swaywm/new/.rss?sort=new" reddit sway)
("https://www.reddit.com/r/i3wm/new/.rss?sort=new" reddit i3wm)
("https://www.reddit.com/r/nordvpn/new/.rss?sort=new" reddit nordvpn)
("https://lwn.net/headlines/rss" news LWN.net)
("https://lobste.rs/t/linux.rss" news lobsterlinux linux)
("https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs?action=rss" news EmacsWiki emacs)
("https://feeds.arstechnica.com/arstechnica/index" news arstechnica)
("https://www.engadget.com/rss.xml" news engadget)
("https://lemmy.ml/feeds/c/emacs.xml?sort=Active" emacs lemmy)
("https://lemmy.ml/feeds/c/linux.xml?sort=New" linux lemmy)
("https://lemmy.ml/feeds/c/swaywm.xml?sort=New" sway lemmy)))
FWIW I'm reading lemmy RSS feed with elfeed (hope this gets through - popping my lemmy cherry here)
voidlinux on my laptop (from Fedora) - why? I wanted to see what a systemd-less distro was like nowadays. I have used Linux since 1992 and Unix since 1984 so I'm used to SysVinit. What I find with voidlinux is a system I can understand easily - not that I struggle with systemd, but I felt there was just so much happening under the hood, just too clever by half. If I wanted MacOS, I'd have bought an Apple.
The packaging system on voidlinux is sooooo much faster than fedora. The really weird thing is that my battery life almost doubled. I can't explain it except to say that the laptop is much calmer than under fedora, which seems to run the fan constantly. Same workload, CPU governers, powertop tweaks etc etc - but battery life almost doubled.
The one downside is a smaller array of packages in the repositories. But since I'm happy installing from source for those few corner cases, it's no biggie.
I've left fedora on my media/file server for now as I still do some fedora packaging (mainly for sway related packages).