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How does this compare to a lightweight Linux distro like Lubuntu?

by bsuvc 4y ago

asicsp 4y ago
Just checked `free` on my Ubuntu desktop: 913MB for a browser with 3 tabs.
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stainablesteel 4y ago
i used to run arch on a laptop with only 2 gb of ram and had zero problems for years, it was useful because it got great battery life memory was basically a non-issue unless i was trying to compile a large package, i don't recall the precise baseline it had after boot but it was probably around 12-25%
camel-cdr 4y ago
My daily driver Debian system idles at 400mb RAM usage. While writing this, it currently uses 1.2GB of RAM, with two browser windows, and about 40 tabs open. My vastly less powerful Manjaro arm Laptop with the same setup idles at 160MB. Most of the RAM seems to be used by systemd btw.
zozbot234 4y ago
Lubuntu is not really "lightweight" in my experience. A really light Linux install uses maybe 0.2 GB RAM at the desktop, which lets you do some very basic web browsing even on a 1 GB system.
- ComputerGuru 4y ago
  As someone that has built Linux (and various BSDs) "from scratch," your statement contains the biggest contradiction/problem. I can get a fully functionable desktop with GUI apps, generic hardware support (i.e. not locked down to my hardware), support for dynamic modules/drivers/libraries, audio, 3d-accelerated video, and more in a 300 MiB footprint (with only basic iso image compression) and runnable with 128 MiB of RAM. Then comes in the last part of your statement: "do some very basic web browsing." The system above works just fine with a browser featuring < 201x tech, with great CSS, JS, HTML support. But if I need to build and bundle the latest Firefox, Chrome, or whatever without manually stripping out a ton of features (beyond what is available via distro package managers), that footprint triples or quadruples in size and the memory requirements skyrocket.

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How does this compare to a lightweight Linux distro like Lubuntu?

by bsuvc 4y ago

How does this compare to a lightweight Linux distro like Lubuntu?

asicsp 4y ago
Just checked `free` on my Ubuntu desktop: 913MB for a browser with 3 tabs.
- deleted 4y ago
  [deleted]
stainablesteel 4y ago
i used to run arch on a laptop with only 2 gb of ram and had zero problems for years, it was useful because it got great battery life memory was basically a non-issue unless i was trying to compile a large package, i don't recall the precise baseline it had after boot but it was probably around 12-25%
camel-cdr 4y ago
My daily driver Debian system idles at 400mb RAM usage. While writing this, it currently uses 1.2GB of RAM, with two browser windows, and about 40 tabs open. My vastly less powerful Manjaro arm Laptop with the same setup idles at 160MB. Most of the RAM seems to be used by systemd btw.
zozbot234 4y ago
Lubuntu is not really "lightweight" in my experience. A really light Linux install uses maybe 0.2 GB RAM at the desktop, which lets you do some very basic web browsing even on a 1 GB system.
- ComputerGuru 4y ago
  As someone that has built Linux (and various BSDs) "from scratch," your statement contains the biggest contradiction/problem. I can get a fully functionable desktop with GUI apps, generic hardware support (i.e. not locked down to my hardware), support for dynamic modules/drivers/libraries, audio, 3d-accelerated video, and more in a 300 MiB footprint (with only basic iso image compression) and runnable with 128 MiB of RAM. Then comes in the last part of your statement: "do some very basic web browsing." The system above works just fine with a browser featuring < 201x tech, with great CSS, JS, HTML support. But if I need to build and bundle the latest Firefox, Chrome, or whatever without manually stripping out a ton of features (beyond what is available via distro package managers), that footprint triples or quadruples in size and the memory requirements skyrocket.