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minus-square0x0@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 months ago Linux, on the other hand, can easily boot up on a 10-year-old laptop with just 2GB of RAM, and work fine. I’m not sure a modern day browser would be just fine with “only” 2GiB, unfortunately.
minus-squareairikr@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·9 months agoThere’s Linux dists that can only requires less than 200 MB of RAM. Absolute Linux for an example, has a minimum system requirement of 64 MB RAM. Plenty of space left for memory hungry softwares like a browser.
I’m not sure a modern day browser would be just fine with “only” 2GiB, unfortunately.
There’s Linux dists that can only requires less than 200 MB of RAM. Absolute Linux for an example, has a minimum system requirement of 64 MB RAM. Plenty of space left for memory hungry softwares like a browser.