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From: Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Is Debian still good for GUI stuff in an over 12 yrs. old PC?
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2021 20:45:46 -0700
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Ant wrote:

> Will getting Bullseye v11 be OK?
> 
> Setup details:
> 
> Intel Core 2 Q8200 (quad-core; 

> two 1 GB of Crucial RAM (Samsung DDR2 800
> (PC2-6400; 400 MHz), EVGA NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT PCIE video card (512 MB
> of VRAM), onboard RealTek RTL8168C(P)/8111C(P) PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet

I dl/ed the Deb 11 KDE & wrote it to USB.  It failed to boot, seeming to 
me to choke on trying to load the ware for the ethernet.

So, then I dl/ed the Deb 11 KDE nonfree and wrote it.  It booted fine. 
It uses more ram to the live desktop than KDE Neon by about 50%, 675 vs 
450.  That system I booted had 8G ram; I also have a machine w/ lower 
resources like yours, 2G ram but a 15 y/o AMD instead of Intel.

I have some trouble booting it from USB because i have to use a Plop CD 
to do that and its optical tray is very balky.  I should put the plop on 
its hdd; right now I'm working on the optical tray problem.


-- 
Mike Easter