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Re:I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux ... by logicchains on Sunday May 17, 2026 @12:29PM (#48170413)
>I only had 4GB ram until two or three years ago. No swap. Never ran into an issue

That sounds like an problem Windows could solve.

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Re:I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux ... by BobbyTables2 on Sunday May 17, 2026 @12:31PM (#48170427)
Also sounds like a problem they don’t want to solve…

If people have to buy new PCs, that’s more $$$ for Microsoft.

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Re:I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux ... by pjmlp on Monday May 18, 2026 @03:24AM (#48176457)
Windows traces back to running comfortably with 4 MB, and my first Linux distro, Slackaware run with 32 MB.

We can start by throwing all that Electron junk out of the window, pun intended.

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