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Linux on old School Machines?
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this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2024
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This is my rule of thumb and process to choose DE and distro:
Using these rules, I've converted many laptops and computers for my family here in Greece, installing the most appropriate each time. The least powerful computer was my mom's old laptop, with 16 GB internal, 2 GB of RAM, 600 passmark points. As long as she's only opening 1 tab on Chrome (Debian/XFce), she fits in the 2 GB RAM without swapping (most of the time). I use Chrome and not Firefox for these older laptops because Chrome uses LESS memory than Firefox (there's an additional setting for it in the settings to help the matters more), and its youtube playback speed is much better too. I use firefox on more powerful computers, and it's my default too, just not for underpowered computers.
Chrome use less memory than chromium?
I think they're the same. It's FF that it's problematic with ram usage.
whoa there them's fightin' words
I think an awful lot of people would disagree with you on that one
Do the calculations yourself, because I have.
I have, and so have many others, which is why we disagree.
But why install chromium with spyware instead just chromium?
My mom and my family used chrome before, and they're used to its bells and whistles. I personally use firefox.
I would think chromium would use less memory
passmark is not a real world application, so its scores are meaningless in the real world.
I have seen respectable communities outright ban any use or discussion of passmark or cpubenchmark type sites
For me, it works just fine as a decision point. And real work usage of the computers I moved to Linux was very similar to what they report, they reflected just fine. So I don't see any point to not use it, or even more so, to not suggest it to others, when the discussion warrants it.