From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: swedebugia Subject: Re: Question about Guix documentation Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2018 22:36:21 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87wootmajh.fsf@roquette.mug.biscuolo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45815) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gTZPi-0001gv-Bo for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Dec 2018 16:36:31 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gTZPf-0002WB-3W for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Dec 2018 16:36:30 -0500 Received: from mx1.riseup.net ([198.252.153.129]:40607) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gTZPe-0002Vv-TR for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Dec 2018 16:36:27 -0500 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Laura Lazzati , g@xelera.eu Cc: Guix-devel , Ricardo Wurmus On 2018-12-02 16:05, Laura Lazzati wrote: > Hi! > On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 2:17 PM Giovanni Biscuolo 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