• 0x0@programming.dev
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    5 months ago

    Linux, on the other hand, can easily boot up on a 10-year-old laptop with just 2GB of RAM, and work fine.

    I’m not sure a modern day browser would be just fine with “only” 2GiB, unfortunately.

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      5 months ago

      I have 3GB of RAM on my PC running Linux Mint, using LibreWolf, it works pretty great for me, I mean I can’t open 100 tabs, but 10-15 is possible

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      I’ve tried to use Fedora Workstation in VM (GNOME Boxes) with only 1GiB RAM. And it is even usable and UI is responsible for GNOME and Firefox, but applications start more slowly. All those at cost of higher CPU usage. Probably it performs well because Fedora uses swap on ZRam, and it makes the system more reliable.