Was trying to make a Chromebook with 2GB of RAM usable. Chrome based browsers just ran out of memory and became unusable on xfce mint.
Went with lubuntu and the falkon browser and it seems to handle low memory conditions much better. The chromium based browsers would work very well for a little while but eventually pulled too much memory and everything died. Ran a YouTube playlist overnight on falkon and everything is still responsive.
Went with lubuntu and the falkon browser and it seems to handle low memory conditions much better. The chromium based browsers would work very well for a little while but eventually pulled too much memory and everything died. Ran a YouTube playlist overnight on falkon and everything is still responsive.
Huh! I had no idea. I guess it just handles itself a bit better, and lxde might use a bit less too.
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I use a very minimal Void Linux setup on an old ThinkPad T43 with just 2 gigs of RAM. With bare dwm 32-bit Firefox can handle 3-4 tabs without issues — it can do more and never crashed on me, but it can become unresponsive if you open more tabs, the juice I can squeeze from this machine is barely enough to log into Element Web, but it's possible 😅