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[-] CalesDumb@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago
[-] skqweezy@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Could it run on a old desktop? (Core 2 duo, 3gb ram, HDD, ati sapphire x1650)

I don't have anything else and windows is absolutely shit on it (yes it's a 64 bit system)

[-] iloverocks@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yea it would run on it linke any other distro, but you wouldn't be able to multi task. I reasently installed Debian 32bit on an lenovo ideapead from 2013 with a 1 core 2 threads at 1.2ghz, 2G of ram and a HDD it runs KDE Plasma and will load anything as your pations are strong enough

But you could also run Alpine it will probably use less ram then debian. But I am farmiliar with apt, systemd and gnu software so yea. It is easier for me to give it to my small step sis as a research device with Firefox. I think Debian with KDE plasma uses about 630MB and with xfce around 300-400MB. But I think she is better of with KDE as she primary uses windows in school and it looks more like it

[-] CalesDumb@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

It should run perfectly fine, Alpine is made to run on low-end machines and containers

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