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Trying to rescue a 1GB RAM laptop (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I had an Aspire One D270 laptop with a 32-bit Intel Atom CPU and 1 gigabyte of RAM, so I installed Debian with Xfce on it, but even then it's running way too slow.

Is there anything I can do to make the laptop faster and more responsive given its limited memory?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I’ve ran Debian Xfce4 on simular hardware

OP did say he tried Debian with xfce and it was slow, I don't see the point in insisting on using that

[–] possiblylinux127 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Because it isn't going to be faster to use something else else. Unless they added a ton of stuff it shouldn't use more than a quarter of the ram. Firefox suspends tabs under ram pressure so that shouldn't be an issue either.

I've done work on a old Atom with 1gb of ram. It isn't fast but it gets the job done. You can't just make old hardware run fast by changing the desktop