pierom_qwerty

Yeah, we have a large market in places where the resources available are low. Got this image sent to us a few weeks ago:

I don't think ubuntu is a good OS to install for many reasons, but if you want something to run on a few hundred megs of ram, you need to do some tinkering. For example, debian while using fluxbox for a DE works fine with a few hundred megs. While the experience is far from great, it is definitely usable.

While it depends on the site and the browser, I do just have to agree with you. 2gigs is probably the minimum you can get away with while browsing BUT I do have to interject. I work for Replit, its simply an IDE which runs in the browser. One thing we have to focus on is keeping memory usage low (100-150MB) for customers who have very low powered computers and phones, so we know people like this exist. I did go ahead and boot up a vm running fluxbox (lightweight) and firefox, and then loaded google, youtube and facebook. While the experience was laggy, it still used under 800MB of ra

I've gotta agree with that, though it really depends on your use case. If you simply need a machine for some simple web browsing, 500MB or a gig might work fine, but power user stuff will require, well, more power. Moreover, I've installed linux on the laptop I carry around, and it does still stand the lower bloat and higher power efficiency, as I went from 3ish hours to 6-7ish hours of battery life out of a charge. Also the stability of softwares such as blender improved somehow, no idea if that is related though.

Thats a good point, tho with a gig or two they can. One thing is that fluxbox definitely can (a free repl on replit has anywhere between 200 and 500 megs of ram on a shared machine)

lolwut. last time i checked windows couldn't run on 200MB of ram