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Best os choices and use cases for a netbook with 2ram?
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It's not hard to make Linux run on 2GB of RAM. The hard part is getting a web browser to run on 2GB without constantly swapping.
Define Linux. The most basic kernel for a given hardware set, a console emulator and a lightweight alternative libc busybox package? Yes.
An up-to-date desktop suite? Hardly so.
any distro with a lightweight desktop suite: xfce, lxqt, openbox, twms like sway....
as the guy said, internet browsing is more of a challenge, but can work on lightweight browsers, or if you limit ourself to just a couple of tabs.