De-Bloated Windows 11 Build Runs on 2GB of RAM

Re:De-Bloated Windows 11 Build Runs on 2GB of RAM by retrac on Saturday February 04, 2023 @11:34AM (#34655649)

I have a netbook from around 2010. It has 2 GB of RAM and a single core Atom processor. It boots to a full Linux GUI desktop in a minute or so. It can handle CAD software, my editor, and my usual toolchain, if a bit slowly. It even handles HD video and the battery still holds a 6 hr charge.

But it doesn't really have enough RAM to run a modern web browser. A few tabs and we are swapping. That's unusably slow. A processor that's 5 or 20x slower is tolerable often. Working set not fitting in RAM is thrashing with a 1000x slowdown. And so this otherwise perfectly useful computer is garbage. Not enough RAM ends a machine's useful life before anything else does these days, in my experience.

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Re:De-Bloated Windows 11 Build Runs on 2GB of RAM by anthk on Saturday February 04, 2023 @12:26PM (#34656179)

Enable ZRAM. I run luakit with just 1GB of RAM and a compressed GB of ZRAM.

Atom n270 netbook, go figure.

Also, run this to get a system wide adblocker:

    git clone https://github.com/hosts
  
    cd hosts

    sed -n '/Start Steven/,$p' < hosts > hosts.append

    sudo cat hosts.append >> /etc/hosts

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Re:De-Bloated Windows 11 Build Runs on 2GB of RAM by teo_zero on Sunday February 05, 2023 @04:12AM (#34663245)

Same here, except I fine-tuned the kernel to boot under 10 s.

Of course it can't run all today's bloated software, but we're talking about the operating system, here, not the applications.

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