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RAM??? Let use GDrive as swap (lemm.ee)
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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 6 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] pancakesyrupyum@kbin.social 15 points 9 months ago

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

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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.

[-] Bandicoot_Academic@lemmy.one 8 points 9 months ago

That sounds like a problem with the graphics drivers

[-] Hexarei@programming.dev 5 points 9 months ago

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

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 points 9 months ago

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

[-] Hexarei@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago

Well then, guess that clears that up

[-] limelight79@lemm.ee 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.

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 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.

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