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Trying to rescue a 1GB RAM laptop (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I had an Aspire One D270 laptop with a 32-bit Intel Atom CPU and 1 gigabyte of RAM, so I installed Debian with Xfce on it, but even then it's running way too slow.

Is there anything I can do to make the laptop faster and more responsive given its limited memory?

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

SSD upgrade

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

This will be the single biggest change you can make. Swapping an hdd for a cheap 256gb ssd will make a bigger difference than any DE changes.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (3 children)

And then ZRAM and swap like hell

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I thought it's either swap or ZRAM - could you use both at the same time?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes Fedora uses swap and zram by default. Just compresses the memory in RAM (more memory available) and on disk (less data written, less wear)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Wow, that's supercool actually! I had no idea...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Won't that kill the SSD on short notice? Or can they make do with it for years?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I mean, worth the tradeoff? Zram would just make the cpu work more. Swap... kill the ssd

But over time. SSDs can handle a lot, like a couple of years?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not really, if you would spend a lot more on SDD drives instead of getting a modern computer

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Do you have numbers? I dont think its that dramatic

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Won't be a couple of years if you're constantly swapping, no.