A Question of Bloat

[raymac46]

I just switched ipv6 off in Network Manager and I also disabled it on the adapters in Wndows 10. My router and ISP do not support it and neither does Private Internet Access. If I have trouble with some local program I can always re-enable it I guess.

[mhbell]

I just switched ipv6 off in Network Manager and I also disabled it on the adapters in Wndows 10. My router and ISP do not support it and neither does Private Internet Access. If I have trouble with some local program I can always re-enable it I guess.

tried that, but it made no difference. I have a gigabit ethernet card and a gigabit router hooked to a 25 Mbs network which runs at 29.9 Mbs according to speed tests. I think some of the stuff I use requires ipv6 so will re-enable it. This thread has turned out to have a lot of useful info.

Mel

[raymac46]

Mine is on a wifi adapter. I have re-enabled ipv6 in Windows 10 as it didn't make much difference in boot time.

[Dr. J]

I generally use the "hibernate" option when moving between lectures/the library or going for lunch, which saves me having to re-open a whole bunch of windows when I want to go back and work on the same thing later, but I will shut down properly if I was just browsing the web, or had one or two documents open.

 

Boot time isn't really an issue for me. I takes a while with the ancient hard drive in my laptop, but once everything is loaded Xfce is as snappy and responsive as it can be.