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The difference is astounding in virtualbox. Ubuntu Gnome is nearly unusable- mint works pretty well. Using i3 for Ubuntu helps quite a bit.
by dhimes 7y ago
The difference is astounding in virtualbox. Ubuntu Gnome is nearly unusable- mint works pretty well. Using i3 for Ubuntu helps quite a bit.
- chrismorgan 7y agoWith i3 (no GNOME elements at all, and precious little desktop environment stuff), I think my old 1920×1080 laptop tended to idle at using around 60MB of RAM. With 8GB of RAM and a 128GB SSD, I never set up swap, and over the course of four years or so this only bit me about three times, and I spent a lot of that time running two substantial Firefox sessions, a 2GB RAM VirtualBox VM and a handful of other things like urxvt, Inkscape and Chrome all at once.
- dhimes 6y agoWhat I love about linux is that we have the option of doing this. My main machine in my office is from 2009- 4GB RAM, linux mint and fluxbox. It's time to upgrade as I've gotten away a bit from slinging 1s and 0s but damn- still does a job for that.