Is this enough RAM for my PC?

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littlestdickus@reddit

If it's good enough for a Raspberry Pi 1 it should be good enough for you.

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0riginal-Syn@reddit

Great for retro systems. I have collected a few and have some of my dad's going back to the 70s. Have a few from the 90s as well. You can actually buy/sell these on retro computing sites.

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CivilizationMaster@reddit

Q4OS Trinity has a minimum RAM of 512 MB. It’s basically Debian but for old hardware and with TDE. You can download it here: https://www.q4os.org/downloads1.html

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0riginal-Syn@reddit

Had Arch 32 running on a retro system of mine with 256Mb with JWM on top. They recommend 512Mb, but it worked actually pretty well.

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Well, it depends on lots of factors, but I will answer... No It's not enough. I have an old laptop running a Linux distro (Linux Lite) , but I expanded RAM to 1.5 GB. Sure if you don't use a Desktop environment, you may have less RAM. But this kind of RAM are usually coupled with very old 32 bit CPUs. And 32 bit support is being abandoned, so...

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0riginal-Syn@reddit

Pretty sure OP is just joking, but...

You have at least around 10 more years, and likely a little longer with 32-bit support on SLTS kernels, which they made 6.12 a SLTS. At most you have under 2038, as it then hits the unix time controller limit.

You can run some WMs on 512 as well. TinyWM runs on 200KB, but is limited. Stepping up to usable, you have JWM, IceWM, Fluxbox, Openbox, etc. all under 15MB and some down to 5Mb ram. The problem of course becomes apps, mainly browser. Even then there are options, albeit limited.

I loaded Linux a while back on one of my treo systems with 256Mb RAM and was able to load up and even browse the web. No watching videos mind you.

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cookie99999999@reddit

What motherboard do you have? If it's actually a DDR2 board you can just buy bigger sticks and max it out for very cheap

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NoLemurs@reddit

For your PC running Linux? Yes, as long as you use a light weight desktop environment and don't have any memory-hungry apps, this will probably be enough.

To run a modern web browser? No. This is not enough ram to run a modern web browser and visit most sites.

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Emergency-Ball-4480@reddit

Damn, you rocking an old Pentium or Athlon? If you have 2 sticks of that, you can actually do stuff with it. Just don't expect it to be fast, or handle a modern DE. XFCE or something like that might work (slowly)

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Emergency-Ball-4480@reddit

Damn, you rocking an old Pentium or Athlon? If you have 2 sticks of that, you can actually do stuff with it. Just don't expect it to be fast, or handle a modern DE. XFCE or something like that might work (slowly)

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Mikicrep@reddit

for arch ye and even for some other distros too

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trofosila@reddit

Installing same packages on different distro will result in (aprox) same RAM usage. What makes you believe Arch is different than others in this regard?

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