Linux is for you, Linux is for me, Linux is for everybody.
  • 0x0@programming.dev
    16·
    3 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.

    • Orfeluh@lemmy.world
      4·
      3 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

    • kenkenken@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      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.

  • RabbitMix@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    6·
    3 months ago

    I can’t program, but I only use Linux on both my laptop and desktop. All I really do on my computers is browse the web, light photo/video editing, print the occasional document, organize my photos, and play A LOT of video games. I was dual booting windows for a bit there for the games that won’t work on Linux, but I soon discovered that those games weren’t really worth dealing with the annoyances I had with windows for how often I actually wanted to play them… except CoD, but I have an Xbox so I just play that there. Deleting my windows partition was a great choice.

  • eshep@social.trom.tf
    3·
    3 months ago

    @petsoi Beautifully written perspective; the KDE Activities bit of that was my favorite! Multiple workspaces on a single monitor is probably one of my most advocated features. I’m telling someone about it at least once a week, even if it’s just showin em how to use the cut-down one on their windows machine.

  • ssm@lemmy.sdf.org
    2·
    3 months ago

    I dislike the paradigm that there are “techy people/programmers” and “tech illiterates/non programmers”. Anyone can develop the skills to properly use unix interfaces given proper training; and I know that’s true because the whole world used to run (mostly) unix on the desktop before corporate took over. Unix doesn’t need to be windowsified/macosified to get people to move over; people need to unlearn the interfaces corporate has brainwashed them with for generations. There are so many more interesting user interfaces than just what Windows and MacOS provide; graphical or otherwise.