XPost: comp.os.linux.misc
On 07/07/2022 12:49, Joerg Lorenz wrote:
Am 07.07.22 um 12:20 schrieb The Natural Philosopher:
There was a lot of discussion on this, but rather less actual data.
Yesterday a friend turned up with an EEEpc 1000H with 1GB RAM and a
1.6GHz 32 bit Atom processor, loaded up with a corrupted version of
XP...and a request to make it work or chuck it.
To cut a long story short, with a display of 1024x600 it looked big
enough to take Linux Mint, so I downloaded an onsolete19.2 Mint MATE
version from somewhere (that's the latest 32 bit) threw that on a 1TB
USB drive (I simply have no pen drives!) and live booted it.
Xfce would have been even lighter on the machine.
Please.
I am sick to death at hearing how this or that window manager would have
used a megabyte of RAM less.
Show me the browser that uses 500 megabytes less, and I'll sit up and
take notice.
I am not on the business of promoting my ego by my choice of Linux
distro or window manager. My purpose was to show an example of what can
be done and give a rough idea of performance. I looked into the
possibility of upgrading the RAM , fitting an SSD, etc etc, bit it
simply wasn't worth it.
The task was to take a now dead child's machine and make it fit for a
new purpose. Mostly as a word processor.
To that end, as I may have to support it, my choice was for the distro I
am most familiar with. Not because am a genius for using it, but because
around ten years ago it happened to be the first satisfactory debian
based distro I stumbled on. Why Debian? People I knew were developing
and supporting it.
The answer to the unspoken question is simply this
1GB of RAM and an 1.6Ghz Atom is (just) enough to run a modern distro
pretty well, (as good as XP) but probably won't support video.
--
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on
its shoes.
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