Re: Which flavour for a 2GB RAM laptop?

From	Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Which flavour for a 2GB RAM laptop?
Date	2022-03-04 12:00 +0100
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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 like the simplicity of LXQT, although I have recently fallen
in love with Cutefish (not yet in Debian).

Regards,
Christian

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http://www.cb-fraggle.de

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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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