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Trying to rescue a 1GB RAM laptop
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this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2024
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OP did say he tried Debian with xfce and it was slow, I don't see the point in insisting on using that
Because it isn't going to be faster to use something else else. Unless they added a ton of stuff it shouldn't use more than a quarter of the ram. Firefox suspends tabs under ram pressure so that shouldn't be an issue either.
I've done work on a old Atom with 1gb of ram. It isn't fast but it gets the job done. You can't just make old hardware run fast by changing the desktop