On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 05:18:13PM -0500, Howard Gibson via talk wrote: > On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 12:31:08 -0500 (EST) > "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > | From: Howard Gibson via talk <[email protected]> > > | > > | I have long ago given up trying to run computers on 8GB RAM. For > > | GNU/Linux, 16GB minimum. > > > > What tasks to you do that challenge computers with only 8 GiB? > > Hughk > > I probably spend too much time on YouTube. I use GIMP to mess with > photographs. I use LaTeX a lot to prepare documents, but if I am sharing > info, I use LibreOffice, and the Microsoft office document formats.
I'm using a lenovo x240 with 8GB of RAM for pretty much the same type of usage. This is actually my second x240. When the first one crapped out I resorted to using a Pentium (MS Vista era, not a modern core called pentium) with 3GB of RAM while hunting for a replacement. The default install on the Pentium created a ridiculously small SWAP space which caused problems, but once I increased it, it ran quite nicely if a bit slow compared to the x240. -- joeDoe --- Post to this mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
