<div dir="auto">Linux had moved long way. From be able to run kernel and shell in 2 MB to would it run in 6GB.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Nov 15, 2021, 11:48 Scott Plante via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Our regular waitress/bartender had a Windows laptop that was super-slow. It was one of those underpowered sealed ones very hard to upgrade, and she couldn't afford a new one. She was not technically adept, so I was a bit worried about a regular Linux installation. It had 2GB RAM and a 30GB SSD. I tried to re-install a fresh current Windows version, and it didn't have the resources to even do the install. I ended up using this free packaging of the open source Chromium OS (which is the basis of ChromeOS). <br><br><a href="https://www.neverware.com/freedownload" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.neverware.com/freedownload</a><br><br>It performed fairly well as long as not too many tabs were open, and did what she needed it to do without a lot of help from me going forward. ChromiumOS is basically a limited Linux distribution, of course. You might consider it for this laptop.<br><br>Scott<br><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 9:25 AM Allen Beddingfield via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Do they really need 500GB? If not, order one of the $19.99 120GB SSDs from Amazon, and slap that in there. That's pretty much my go-to on every computer I touch these days that still has a spinning disk. There are disassembly videos on Youtube for opening up pretty much any model out there.<br>
Allen B.<br>
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From: Ale <<a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ale-bounces@ale.org</a>> on behalf of Neal Rhodes via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ale@ale.org</a>><br>
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] [ale] Linux on 6GB Dell notebook?<br>
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So, Thanks for the advice on helping friend with virus scan on their 6gb<br>
Dell notebook.<br>
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I think that got it to the point of occasionally running ok, but also<br>
often needing more than 6GB for Win 10, and starting to thrash.<br>
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It's one of those Dells without a RAM door on the bottom.<br>
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The recommendation from HL computer was to swap the drive with a 500GB<br>
SSD, and virus scan the new drive. They wanted $260 for that.<br>
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I'm seeing Walmart is peddling an HP I3 with 8GB RAM, 220GB SSD for $270<br>
this week.<br>
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Which is actually a better proposition. Friend's finances are limited.<br>
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I'm debating telling him I'll give him $100 for the old notebook and<br>
reformat it for linux. Likely Ubuntu.<br>
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Guessing Ubuntu will run fine in 6GB.<br>
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It's been a couple of years since I did that. Are there new hurdles<br>
with doing a fresh install? EUFI? What about audio? Audacity?<br>
TeamViewer? Ultimaker Cura? Zoom?<br>
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regards,<br>
<br>
Neal<br>
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