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From: | swedebugia |
Subject: | Re: Question about Guix documentation |
Date: | Sun, 2 Dec 2018 22:36:21 +0100 |
On 2018-12-02 16:05, Laura Lazzati wrote:
Hi! On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 2:17 PM Giovanni Biscuolo <address@hidden> wrote:happy birthday retroPC! a teenager :-)It's not its birthday yet, but thank you ;) I just did a basic installation, since it only has 1GB of RAM memory. But I love it and criticizing my retroPC is one of the things people should never do hahahaha.
1GB of RAM? That is a *lot* :)I have 2 GB on my 2 day-to-day laptops. 1 with GNOME3 GuixSD and 1 with Parabola+MATE. Both work fine and I rarely have to wait for other programs than the really heavy ones (Libreoffice comes to mind).
I choose light programs: mpv, mpsyt, generally console programs over gui if possible and suitable.
A friend of mine have a 4-core Samsung with 8 GB RAM and GNOME3 and I feel no big difference compared to my laptop (besides when compiling of course)
If you configure a good size swapfile or partition you will probably have no trouble running X11 and a light desktop manager (i.e. anything besides GNOME3). (I admit I did not actually check GNOME3 on a 1 GB RAM PC).
I would say it is possible to configure a desktop system to run smoothly with anything above 512MB RAM and 1-2 Ghz 1 core processor. (in 2003 I started out with GNU/Linux on a 350Mhz with 512MB RAM with no problems besides playing DVDs which caused glitches during playback because the processor could not keep up)
-- Cheers Swedebugia
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