On 2018-12-02 16:05, Laura Lazzati wrote:
Hi!
On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 2:17 PM Giovanni Biscuolo <g...@xelera.eu> wrote:
happy birthday retroPC! a teenager :-)
It's not its birthday yet, but thank you ;) I just did a basic
installation, since it only has 1GB of RAM memory. But I love it and
criticizing my retroPC is one of the things people should never do
hahahaha.
1GB of RAM? That is a *lot* :)
I have 2 GB on my 2 day-to-day laptops. 1 with GNOME3 GuixSD and 1 with
Parabola+MATE. Both work fine and I rarely have to wait for other
programs than the really heavy ones (Libreoffice comes to mind).
I choose light programs: mpv, mpsyt, generally console programs over gui
if possible and suitable.
A friend of mine have a 4-core Samsung with 8 GB RAM and GNOME3 and I
feel no big difference compared to my laptop (besides when compiling of
course)
If you configure a good size swapfile or partition you will probably
have no trouble running X11 and a light desktop manager (i.e. anything
besides GNOME3). (I admit I did not actually check GNOME3 on a 1 GB RAM
PC).
I would say it is possible to configure a desktop system to run smoothly
with anything above 512MB RAM and 1-2 Ghz 1 core processor. (in 2003 I
started out with GNU/Linux on a 350Mhz with 512MB RAM with no problems
besides playing DVDs which caused glitches during playback because the
processor could not keep up)
--
Cheers
Swedebugia