On 2024-02-19 10:32, Howard Gibson via talk wrote:
On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 02:52:38 -0500 (EST) "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
I bought a very inexpensive laptop from costco.ca. Dead deal: <https://forums.redflagdeals.com/costco-ca-hot-299-99-hp-15-6-touchscreen-laptop-intel-core-i3-1215u-8gb-ram-256gb-ssd-2673529/>
Unlike most laptops these days, it has two sockets for RAM. Only one was occupied. It had an 8 GiB stick of RAM.
Hugh,
I have long ago given up trying to run computers on 8GB RAM. For GNU/Linux, 16GB minimum.
My travel laptop has only 4gb ram and is very very nimble. My wife winds up loading at least 4 firefox tabs with google maps and as many media rich tabs of museums or other attractions. I was even prepared to use xfce on it but it runs KDE 5 perfectly fine. Hugh pointed it out last year, a cheap chromebook at Best Buy for $99.99, a lenovo ideapad 3 11" chromebook, celeron-n4020 64gb emmc, 4gb-ram It is very light. It started out life as a chromebook until I corebooted it and now run Debian testing on a crypted file system. I would be annoyed if was stolen or lost, but at $99 I wouldn't be crying. The only issue I have with it is that I have never been able to get the internal sound card working, I'm using a DAC instead. PS: I ran linux on chromeos for a while but was unhappy with a) the two OS maintenance, b) the trouble getting a VPN up to the mother ship and c) not being able to crypt the box and d) the inconvenience. -- Michael Galea