• Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
    104·
    9 months ago

    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.

    • pancakesyrupyum@kbin.social
      14·
      9 months ago

      2016
      Hmm. There’s no reason anything that supports 6gb RAM shouldn’t run Linux. I’ve janked together much worse Lubuntu rigs before.

      • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
        9·
        9 months ago

        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.

      • limelight79@lemm.ee
        7·
        9 months 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.

    • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      5·
      9 months 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.