That's great! Glad it's working out.
One thing made me chuckle though:
with only 4 gigabytes of RAM
Am I just old or is 4GB actually loads of RAM?
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It's an inconceivably large amount of memory and also nothing. It really depends on your perspective.
Gaming PC? Doesn't even qualify because we need the space for those graphics. A wireless router? Huge. Definitely overkill.
Memory is pretty cheap these days but what constitutes a large amount of it depends on the job. Because I mainly do embedded development where memory is measured in 4k pages most everything seems like a lot.
Am I just old or is 4GB actually loads or RAM?
First stick I bought was 1MB of SIPP, used, for $50.
"When I was a boy we had to load HIMEM and EMM386 uphill in the snow"
HIMEM? What newfangled shit is that?
Really though, I do NOT miss the days of having a custom boot disk for every single game.
we had a paper with a bunch of Ys and Ns, so we could go through the autoexec.bat and config.sys step by step and decide which library to load into highmem or lowmem
My first was a 512KB sidecar.
4Gb is not much under Windows 11 and running Chrome
Am I just old or is 4GB actually loads of RAM?
I remember upgrading my Atari STe to 4MB (yes MB) of RAM and thinking "I'll never use that much". Now I have 32GB and I probably will use it.
It used to be a lot back then. Right now? Not really.
t. Got a Orange pi zero 3 w/ 1 GiB of ram and the performance is really great.
I remember when my big Christmas present was an extra 16MB of RAM
Consider enabling multigenerational LRU if you want the page reclaim strategy used on Android. It will stretch your RAM even more ridiculously far.
You've got the compression. That's great. Now, you can be more intelligent about which pages to compress also.
Thanks just skimmed through the documentation and it seems very interesting.
Same with a 2010-11 samsung. W10 made it totally unusable. linux has it peppy for web, and other office tasks, runs zoom calls as good as my new laptop
Yeah my smartphone has 12GB of ram :)
I had the same outcome with my HP 2 in 1, with one minor problem. I have to log in via keyboard because there's no virtual keyboard option for the log in with the Fedora distro I used.
Could you install one from the repos?
I have the same lenovo and it indeed seems impossible what it can do. I installed linux on it so my mother could use it and I was blown away by the performance
That's great. Glad we didn't get read of them :)