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RAM??? Let use GDrive as swap (lemm.ee)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (3 children)

2016
Hmm. There’s no reason anything that supports 6gb RAM shouldn’t run Linux. I’ve janked together much worse Lubuntu rigs before.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Exactly. Should have run. Something in the hardware it didn't like. Just got a black screen with a flashing cursor. Never got past that point.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

That sounds like a problem with the graphics drivers

[–] Hexarei 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Next step from there is to find out what graphics hardware it has and try to see if you can get a distro that's known working with it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Technically, the next step would be retrieving it from the landfill it got sent to.

[–] Hexarei 3 points 9 months ago

Well then, guess that clears that up

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Yeah, very odd. A few weeks ago, I retired a computer that had 4 GB of RAM that was doing server duties, running Debian. It was doing a great job until I tried running a virtual machine on it (for Home Assistant); that was just killing the poor thing. The processor was a Core 2 Quad that was introduced in 2008, so I got plenty of life out of that setup.