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It's mostly a standard Xubuntu with full disk encryption (just in case the machine gets stolen while travelling) i3 might be even better. I use that at work, bu
by usr1106 3y ago
It's mostly a standard Xubuntu with full disk encryption (just in case the machine gets stolen while travelling) i3 might be even better. I use that at work, but was too lazy to configure it on this machine.
I have desnapped it though and download Firefox directly from Mozilla. There is no Chromium on it.
Edit: I know that it would choke on opening an ever growing number of Firefox tabs. I just close them. And I don't run the machine for more than a couple of hours before shutting it down. Don't use suspend at all.
Edit2: It uses swap. Don't remember whether that was the standard setup or whether I added it myself. Of course you cannot rely on swap for responsive operation, but it helps parking some unused data because the desktop/distro is not optimized at all. And it helps you to get over a tight situation when you forget to close something. When it slows down it's a nice reminder to do so.
- amatecha 3y agoi3 is great, can def recommend for a lightweight computing experience. I run it on my Thinkpad X230 with OpenBSD. perfect setup IMO!
- schemescape 3y agoThanks! Good to know that Firefox is working for you, even with only 1 GB of memory. I'll need to ponder why my experience was so much worse... Edit to add, in case anyone's curious: suspend works for me (but not hibernate).
- usr1106 3y agoIt works, but do applications just grow their memory consumption over time? I woudn't be overly surprised.
- usr1106 3y agoPlease note that I had to correct the 1GB to 2GB. Sorry for giving incorrect data first.
- squarefoot 3y agoFirefox can indeed work with only 1GB, although so little RAM imposes some restrictions on the OS and desktop used. Here are two VM examples: Alpine Linux and DietPi, both using XFCE as desktop manager, with Firefox plus HN front page loaded and one terminal window. https://ibb.co/4PXrGtF https://ibb.co/4PXrGtF https://ibb.co/DwcTrQp https://ibb.co/DwcTrQp
- schemescape 3y agoIs that a setup you use regularly, with other apps? How is your swap space configured? My lived experience on Alpine, with no desktop environment on 1 GB is that Firefox needs more memory than that. Browsing the super-lightweight HN site is probably ok, though!
- squarefoot 3y agoThat one was just a test on a VM.
- anthk 3y agoInstall zram: sudo modprobe zram sudo zramctl --find --size 1024M sudo mkswap /dev/zram0 sudo swapon /dev/zram0 --priority -1