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    I'm writing this from a crappy laptop with 2GB of RAM and a dull screen. (lemmy.world)
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    [–] fossphi@lemm.ee 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    I 100% agree. But, where Linux?

    [–] deus@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Can current Windows even work with 2GB of RAM?

    [–] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    Yep, minimum win 10 1gig cpu 1 gig ram (32 bit) 2gig ram (64 bit) just don't expect much out of it lol

    [–] Sleepyforestwizard@slrpnk.net 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Antix made my old Chromebook’s usable. Old tech is fun.

    [–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

    Antix is the last one standing on the support of old hardware, also gentoo Debian and tumbleweed is good ones since they support WIDE range of architectures

    [–] uis@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago

    It's not that hardware isn't capable, it's just manufacturer isn't willing. Or rather willing to not.

    [–] mryessir@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    How goes the saying? 32 MB of RAM and always swapping?

    [–] flauschke@feddit.de 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    I've heard Emacs as eight mb and constantly swapping (I use Emacs BTW)

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    [–] 11111one11111@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    In 1000 years this meme/tweet/post will be what my entire generation's existence will be known for. Noone will remember the politics, the disasters, the geopolitical events good or bad, they will remember our entire world and existence ad the only time that technology advancement was driven by the big tech mafia trying to see how far it can get it's dick in your digital footprint.

    It's the new cops v robbers or bootleggers v prohibition race. Our tech is getting faster to out run the corporate fuckin maleare but the faster we go the more they stuff in so to the avg user they're ended with paying $6k for a GPU/cpu combo that runs at the same efficiency as my school library's c9mputer did running ms-dos running Oregon Trail in 1995. You are so confined by only having access to functions with massive fuckiing app buttons that even logging in as a guest user req you to memorize every CLI ever made.

    It's become my defining "I don't want to live in this world anymore"

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    [–] SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 10 points 5 months ago

    I make sure my own web game can run smoothly on crappy hardware. It runs well on my gaming laptop downclocked to 400MHz with a 4x slowdown set by Chrome. It also loads in a couple seconds with a typical crappy Internet connection of 200kbps and >10% packet loss. However, it doesn't run smoothly on my Snapdragon 425 phone or my old Core 2 Duo laptop. Is this my game or just browser overhead?

    [–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 10 points 5 months ago

    You have my vote.

    [–] vox@sopuli.xyz 9 points 5 months ago

    that's why I've been doing most of my gamedev stuff on an old craptop from 2016.
    performance issues become apparent immediately

    [–] pathief@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    Can you even run Windows with just 2gb?

    [–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Yes it can!

    Tiny11 is a stripped down custom build of Windows 11, which only requires 8 GB of storage and 2 GB of RAM.

    Someone even got it to run on 200MB of RAM.

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    [–] Sebbe@lemmy.sebbem.se 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Do you want to run Windows?

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    [–] Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 months ago

    1000016148

    [–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 6 points 5 months ago

    I like how KDE has been getting faster and faster as time went on. Like Lisa Simpson's perpetuum mobile.

    [–] Varven@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    can we get this law passed pls

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    [–] Brickardo@feddit.nl 6 points 5 months ago

    Hell yeah, I'd be getting paid for shouting at people

    [–] hperrin@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    I wrote an email service called Port87, and I did it on a really low end laptop (an Ideapad 3 from 2021) to make sure that it works well, even on a potato.

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