Like any cat, Linux is actually liquid and can flow over the whole sofa if it so chooses.
this post was submitted on 01 Nov 2024
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I use a shit load of RAM on Linux. You guys clearly have amateur numbers when it comes to how many applications you have open at once.
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Leaves Firefox running.
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Y'all need to point me towards one of those tiny Linux systems. I have an old no-longer-bricked Toshiba Satellite that somebody gave me and I got it to boot again, so I slapped Mint on it to see how I liked it since I've never messed with that distro before. The only problem is this sucker is a dog, it's only got 2 gigs of RAM and a pokey 5400 RPM platter drive in it. The thing sits there and thrashes swap constantly even when it's doing nothing, and when Mint is creating one of its automated system image rollback things it's completely unusable. I'm surprised the laptop platters don't escape their casing and bore into the Earth like a drill bit.
I found that it will... eventually... load and run the latest FreeCAD build and once it's going it's actually not bad (awful screen resolution and single touch only trackpad notwithstanding). But getting there when taken altogether takes about 20 minutes...
If you can afford it, a SSD will significant improve your life. Also, any more memory will help.
As others said, you can disable swap.
Are you running the xfce version of Mint? It's significantly less resources.
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so much space for activities
Now run Mixtral
You are not Linuxing hard enough.
Play star citizen. You'll use that up fast.
I spent years gaming on 8gb. Sure I could barely open bg3 but do I really need my 32 now?
When I think back to when I marveled that one of our office's 8Gb nightly backup tapes fit in my shirt pocket - EIGHT GIGABYTES - in my POCKET!!!...
In the future Gen ┐ will whine to their parents that their cerebral implant is only 100 terabytes.
But there's so much room for ACTIVITIES!!!
And on linux, so much room for cache that doesn't have to be dumped to disk!
Floppinux anyone?
Long time ago I had a 3.5" HD floppy disk Linux with graphical user interface and ethernet and some programs on it. But 64 bit and the increased kernel size probably make this difficult nowadays.