Trying to rescue a 1GB RAM laptop

2 years ago by maliciousonion to c/linux

I had an Aspire One D270 laptop with a 32-bit Intel Atom CPU and 1 gigabyte of RAM, so I installed Debian with Xfce on it, but even then it's running way too slow.

Is there anything I can do to make the laptop faster and more responsive given its limited memory?

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idk_a_cool_username 6 points 2 years ago

Try antix. its requirements are 256mb ram. And it's actually usable.

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possiblylinux127 1 point 2 years ago

It isn't going to be faster than Debian. I think the issue is the GPU not supporting modern encoding which leads to the CPU doing everything the GPU is suppost to do

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