Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK
vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de
I have 2 (two) mini laptops with only 2GB RAM and a 64GB SSD which had been sitting around in my house.
This is way too small to run Windows these days. Does anyone have suggestions for #Linux distros that will run well on these low spec machines (including at least basic multimedia capability (audio + video)?
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@vfrmedia I would give Linux Lite a go ( https://www.linuxliteos.com/index.html )
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Diss Appear
funkybuddha@mastodon.green@khamis_joe @vfrmedia IMHO Linux lite will struggle with 2GB RAM. You can try it, otherwise try Debian 12 with XFCE. Puppy Linux is ugly AF, but it will work for you for sure
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Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK
vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de@funkybuddha @khamis_joe I've used Puppy before, but found the single user setup running as root a bit limiting (unless this is no longer the case?)
I'll give an XFCE-based distro a try, I've found that to just about work OK with a netbook (it struggled on video, but lots of other stuff worked fairly well)
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@vfrmedia Does it have to be linux alex? Haiku is very usable now, if the hardware works out of the gate. Easy to burn a usb key and try.
https://www.haiku-os.org/
I actually returned a low-spec ancient laptop to a friend with it last month or so. First time I've deployed it. It's blindingly fast, even compared to Puppy.
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Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK
vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de@gemlog looks interesting, although I'm likely to be connecting them to RTL-SDR and possibly other embedded stuff, so at the moment Linux would be preferable as I at least know how to work that
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