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Preventing e-waste by selling old desktops with Linux due to low system requirements (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/linux@lemmy.world
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Sounds like a good way to make use of old eMachines, at a large discount too.

Finally, the year of the Linux Desktop! (eMachine edition)

Image of an old desktop with paper taped into it saying "Why Linux instead of Windows"
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[–] 29 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Idk what year that pic was taken, but 2GB of ram is useless no matter what operating system you put on it.

Except ofc for a home nas, but as a desktop, the user is going to open Firefox, try to open a website, it will take minutes to load and the user just wasted $20

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Libre Office 5.2 seems to have been released in August 2016.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    And a reverse image search shows the picture of at least as old as 2017

    Edit: still not enough ram. 4gb, maybe, at a minimum, for this type of thing. Even Linux has it's limits if you're trying to get anything done in reasonable time on the modern web

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    5 minutes ago I was gaming on my 2gb Windows XP machine.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I just installed my tenth distro on a 2gb netbook, and they all played games of that era just as well as I remember. Just got done playing a map on dawn of war.

    I don't expect these things to play cyberpunk 2077, but if you just want to play stardew valley or terraria it is more than sufficient.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    After reading that, I just checked my memory. After an hour and a half using FF and and a videoplayer (on a reasonably up-to-date Ubuntu 20.x-based XFCE system), I'm using 2.2GB (out of 16, fairly typical, with no swap). So I'm pretty sure that - depending as always on what software they've chosen - 2GB is far from 'useless'. As always, depends on the use case. That's plenty if you spend most days in a text editor coding.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I mean, installing alpine is surprisingly simple and is capable of playing HD youtube by modern standards

    Important note: alpine is black magic and the comparison I'm making is not really sensical if we take into account that one needs at least some terminal knowledge for alpine, let alone install doas instead of sudo (which is bloaty, as it turns out (for alpine stabdards at least))

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