From: swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net>
To: Laura Lazzati <laura.lazzati.15@gmail.com>, g@xelera.eu
Cc: Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>,
Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: Question about Guix documentation
Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2018 22:36:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e7f86ecf-a22f-5349-7325-bd03c7259046@riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPNLzUOUTPkFG71fpbJ6Vqz60YNx1P9B_+d768EP56wWFBxZBw@mail.gmail.com>
On 2018-12-02 16:05, Laura Lazzati wrote:
> Hi!
> On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 2:17 PM Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-02 21:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-01 13:36 Question about Guix documentation Laura Lazzati
2018-12-01 17:17 ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2018-12-02 15:05 ` Laura Lazzati
2018-12-02 21:36 ` swedebugia [this message]
2018-12-02 23:39 ` Laura Lazzati
2018-12-13 8:29 ` swedebugia
2018-12-13 13:45 ` Laura Lazzati
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