Re:What Killed the Linux Desktop (2012)
by jankotek on Sunday February 05, 2017 @12:08PM
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I remember how XP was received. It was slow as hell compared to Win98 and even to Windows 2000. And 256MB RAM is too little for XP, W2K would be probably fine.
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I have successfully run XP on 96MB of RAM. It ran surprisingly okay on a fresh install. Multitasking, Firefox and everything. As it aged though it declined badly. XP never was very good at self-maintenance.
I have ironically had similar-to-worse results with running 2015 Android on 2011 hardware, which has 512MB of RAM. The cheek!