XPost: comp.os.linux.hardware, comp.os.linux.misc
In comp.os.linux.misc The Natural Philosopher <
tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
On 16/06/2022 21:29, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
For convenience, choose a distribution which has it as default. But I
suppose any up to date distribution will run fine, as long a the
desktop manager was chosen wisely.
It is utterly pointless to get a 'lightweight' distro when any browser invocation will immediately grab more than half the RAM.
Firefox seems to always expand to half or more of the available
RAM, but it doesn't seem to actually ruin performance to run it
with only 2 or 3GB so I guess it's just some sort of caching.
If you want to run modern software at all, you need really >3GB RAM OR
an SSD swap disk. Or both,
IRRESPECTIVE OF DISTRO.
Not true, I do everything with neither. Fancy desktop environments
chew up a stupid amount of system resources making everything seem
slow. Compare default Fedora with AntiX or Star on a slow machine
and you'll see for yourself.
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