
On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 05:18:13PM -0500, Howard Gibson via talk wrote:
On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 12:31:08 -0500 (EST) "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
| From: Howard Gibson via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | | I have long ago given up trying to run computers on 8GB RAM. For | GNU/Linux, 16GB minimum.
What tasks to you do that challenge computers with only 8 GiB?
Hughk
I probably spend too much time on YouTube. I use GIMP to mess with photographs. I use LaTeX a lot to prepare documents, but if I am sharing info, I use LibreOffice, and the Microsoft office document formats.
I'm using a lenovo x240 with 8GB of RAM for pretty much the same type of usage. This is actually my second x240. When the first one crapped out I resorted to using a Pentium (MS Vista era, not a modern core called pentium) with 3GB of RAM while hunting for a replacement. The default install on the Pentium created a ridiculously small SWAP space which caused problems, but once I increased it, it ran quite nicely if a bit slow compared to the x240. -- joeDoe