Re: Which flavour for a 2GB RAM laptop?
On Mon, Mar 07, 2022 at 04:06:01PM +0900, 황병희 wrote:
> Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012@yahoo.com> writes:
>
> > One of my memory slot has died, so I am running a Thinkpad with 2GB
> > ram only. I have been told that, even if I put a 4GB ram module in, it
> > won't be as fast as 2x2GB ram (true? Stop me here if I am
> > wrong). Never mind put an 8GB stick; it might not even work.
> >
> > At the moment I'm running a heavily hacked LMDE4 (Buster) with a lot
> > of Mint customisations off. What flavour of Debian should I replace my
> > LMDE4 with? And does it make any difference? My memory hogs are
> > Chromium and Firefox, the rest is ok.
>
> Hi, grazie!
>
> My 1st chromebook(codename: alex)[0] have only 2GB ram. At that time
> (in 2016), i did install Ubuntu 12.04 LTS via Crouton[1] at there the
> chromebook. It was not bad.
>
> So if you want Debian, Jessie (stable)[2] seems proper to you, i guess.
> (also it would be good to try xfce ho ho ho ^^^)
>
XFCE / Mate or Cinnamon all work on my Lenovo Ideapad with 32G disk and 2G RAM.
Web browsing may be a little slower using Firefox - don't open too many tabs.
This with Bullseye (Debian 11).
Please don't use Jessie at this point: it's almost entirely out of support by
anybody. Consider using something completely up to date.
With every good wish, as ever,
Andy Cater
> REFERENCE: [0-2]
> [0]
> <https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-for-chrome-os-devices/samsung-series-5-chromebook/>
> [1] <https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton>
> [2] <https://wiki.debian.org/DebianJessie>
>
> Sincerely, Linux fan Byung-Hee
>
> --
> ^고맙습니다 _地平天成_ 감사합니다_^))//
>
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