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[–] 6 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Someone gave me an 8 year old laptop to clear down. So I figured I'd swap in an SSD and put Linux on it.

Damn thing wouldn't even boot. Wasn't even that bad a spec machine. 6GB RAM should have been plenty. Shame really, was actually looking forward to seeing how far it had come in the last ten years or so.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (7 children)

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    Hmm. There’s no reason anything that supports 6gb RAM shouldn’t run Linux. I’ve janked together much worse Lubuntu rigs before.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    Exactly. Should have run. Something in the hardware it didn't like. Just got a black screen with a flashing cursor. Never got past that point.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Next step from there is to find out what graphics hardware it has and try to see if you can get a distro that's known working with it

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    Yeah, very odd. A few weeks ago, I retired a computer that had 4 GB of RAM that was doing server duties, running Debian. It was doing a great job until I tried running a virtual machine on it (for Home Assistant); that was just killing the poor thing. The processor was a Core 2 Quad that was introduced in 2008, so I got plenty of life out of that setup.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    6gb ram is plenty, especially for a lightweight distro like antix or slax.

    From AntiX:

    It should run on most computers, ranging from 256MB old systems with pre-configured swap to the latest powerful boxes. 512MB RAM is the recommended minimum for antiX. Installation to hard drive requires a minimum 7.0GB hard disk size.

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