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Re: Which flavour for a 2GB RAM laptop?

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On 3/4/22 02:58, Christian Britz wrote:
>
> On 2022-03-04 11:47 UTC+0100, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
>> One of my memory slot has died, so I am running a Thinkpad with 2GB ram
>> only. I have been told that, even if I put a 4GB ram module in, it won't
>> be as fast as 2x2GB ram (true? Stop me here if I am wrong). Never mind
>> put an 8GB stick; it might not even work.
> As far as I know this depends on the design / architecture of the
> chipset / motherboard.
>
>> At the moment I'm running a heavily hacked LMDE4 (Buster) with a lot of
>> Mint customisations off. What flavour of Debian should I replace my
>> LMDE4 with? And does it make any difference? My memory hogs are Chromium
>> and Firefox, the rest is ok.
> You should run Debian stable for daily use. If performance is your main
> concern, try one of the light desktop environments (Xfce, LXDE,
> LXQT...).

I keep hearing about Xfce being "light"

it defiantly is, but I decided to compare it to my personal favorite Mate

Two fresh netinstalls, same machine, same SSD drive. Xfce and Mate desktops

xfce:  774 MIB ram used .. 4 GIB / space used
mate:  719 MIB ram used .. 6 GIB / space used
mate*:  722 MIB ram used .. 6 GIB / space used

*Mate with the mate-desktop-environment-extras metapackage

I did not stress test either but the apparent speed was the same

> I like the simplicity of LXQT, although I have recently fallen
> in love with Cutefish (not yet in Debian).
>
> Regards,
> Christian
>

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Re: Which flavour for a 2GB RAM laptop? Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> - 2022-03-04 12:00 +0100
  Re: Which flavour for a 2GB RAM laptop? Peter Ehlert <pb21a@sdi-baja.com> - 2022-03-04 15:00 +0100
    Re: Which flavour for a 2GB RAM laptop? Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2022-03-04 15:10 +0100
    Re: Which flavour for a 2GB RAM laptop? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-03-04 15:20 +0100
      Re: Which flavour for a 2GB RAM laptop? Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012@yahoo.com> - 2022-03-05 11:10 +0100
        Re: Which flavour for a 2GB RAM laptop? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-03-05 11:30 +0100
    Re: Which flavour for a 2GB RAM laptop? Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2022-03-04 16:20 +0100
      Re: Which flavour for a 2GB RAM laptop? Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> - 2022-03-04 16:30 +0100
  Re: Which flavour for a 2GB RAM laptop? Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2022-03-04 19:40 +0100

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