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    RAM??? Let use GDrive as swap (lemm.ee)
    submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    [–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Someone gave me an 8 year old laptop to clear down. So I figured I'd swap in an SSD and put Linux on it.

    Damn thing wouldn't even boot. Wasn't even that bad a spec machine. 6GB RAM should have been plenty. Shame really, was actually looking forward to seeing how far it had come in the last ten years or so.

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    2016
    Hmm. There’s no reason anything that supports 6gb RAM shouldn’t run Linux. I’ve janked together much worse Lubuntu rigs before.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

    Yeah, very odd. A few weeks ago, I retired a computer that had 4 GB of RAM that was doing server duties, running Debian. It was doing a great job until I tried running a virtual machine on it (for Home Assistant); that was just killing the poor thing. The processor was a Core 2 Quad that was introduced in 2008, so I got plenty of life out of that setup.

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

    Exactly. Should have run. Something in the hardware it didn't like. Just got a black screen with a flashing cursor. Never got past that point.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Next step from there is to find out what graphics hardware it has and try to see if you can get a distro that's known working with it

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Technically, the next step would be retrieving it from the landfill it got sent to.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

    Well then, guess that clears that up

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

    That sounds like a problem with the graphics drivers

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

    6gb ram is plenty, especially for a lightweight distro like antix or slax.

    From AntiX:

    It should run on most computers, ranging from 256MB old systems with pre-configured swap to the latest powerful boxes. 512MB RAM is the recommended minimum for antiX. Installation to hard drive requires a minimum 7.0GB hard disk size.