Re: Which flavour for a 2GB RAM laptop?

2022-03-07 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Mar 07, 2022 at 04:06:01PM +0900, 황병희 wrote: > Ottavio Caruso writes: > > > One of my memory slot has died, so I am running a Thinkpad with 2GB > > ram only. I have been told that, even if I put a 4GB ram module in, it > > won't be as fast as 2x2GB ram (true? Stop me here if I am > >

Re: Which flavour for a 2GB RAM laptop?

2022-03-06 Thread 황병희
Ottavio Caruso writes: > One of my memory slot has died, so I am running a Thinkpad with 2GB > ram only. I have been told that, even if I put a 4GB ram module in, it > won't be as fast as 2x2GB ram (true? Stop me here if I am > wrong). Never mind put an 8GB stick; it might not even work. > > At

Re: Which flavour for a 2GB RAM laptop?

2022-03-06 Thread David Christensen
On 3/5/22 02:10, Ottavio Caruso wrote: On 05/03/2022 00:56, David Christensen wrote: On 3/4/22 02:47, Ottavio Caruso wrote: One of my memory slot has died, I would retire that computer. Thanks. Where do I send my bank details for the funding of a new laptop? so I am running a Thinkpad

Re: Which flavour for a 2GB RAM laptop?

2022-03-05 Thread tomas
On Sat, Mar 05, 2022 at 10:03:44AM +, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > On 04/03/2022 14:13, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > Or just ditch the desktop environment altogether and use a > > honest window manager (e.g. Fvwm > > Is it still around? I used to use it circa 2003... Yes, of course. It's

Re: Which flavour for a 2GB RAM laptop?

2022-03-04 Thread David Christensen
On 3/4/22 02:47, Ottavio Caruso wrote: One of my memory slot has died, I would retire that computer. so I am running a Thinkpad What model/ part number is the Thinkpad? What make/ model/ part number is the processor? What make/ model/ part number are the hard disk(s) and/or solid

Re: Which flavour for a 2GB RAM laptop?

2022-03-04 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 4:58 AM Christian Britz wrote: > > On 2022-03-04 11:47 UTC+0100, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > > One of my memory slot has died, so I am running a Thinkpad with 2GB ram > > only. I have been told that, even if I put a 4GB ram module in, it won't > > be as fast as 2x2GB ram

Re: Which flavour for a 2GB RAM laptop?

2022-03-04 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-03-04 16:10 UTC+0100, Hans wrote: > There are also other WM available, which may be faster, like fvwm95, openbox, > twm. amiwm ;-) -- http://www.cb-fraggle.de

Re: Which flavour for a 2GB RAM laptop?

2022-03-04 Thread Hans
I am a great fan of my old EEEPC, beecause it is tiny and running a long time. But it is 32-bit, not fast, although I spent him 2GB fast RAM and a SSD. So I tested with several window managers. There was no number 1 winner, but IMO the fastest one was LXDE. Almsot the same speed gave me XFCE

Re: Which flavour for a 2GB RAM laptop?

2022-03-04 Thread tomas
On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 05:56:50AM -0800, Peter Ehlert wrote: [...] > I keep hearing about Xfce being "light" > > it defiantly is, but I decided to compare it to my personal favorite Mate > > Two fresh netinstalls, same machine, same SSD drive. Xfce and Mate desktops > > xfce:  774 MIB ram

Re: Which flavour for a 2GB RAM laptop?

2022-03-04 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Friday, 4 Mar 2022 at 05:56, Peter Ehlert wrote: > xfce:  774 MIB ram used .. 4 GIB / space used > mate:  719 MIB ram used .. 6 GIB / space used > mate*:  722 MIB ram used .. 6 GIB / space used stumpwm: 86 MB, 1.3 GB ;-) -- Eric S Fraga with org 9.5.2 in Emacs 29.0.50 on Debian 11.2

Re: Which flavour for a 2GB RAM laptop?

2022-03-04 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 3/4/22 02:58, Christian Britz wrote: On 2022-03-04 11:47 UTC+0100, Ottavio Caruso wrote: One of my memory slot has died, so I am running a Thinkpad with 2GB ram only. I have been told that, even if I put a 4GB ram module in, it won't be as fast as 2x2GB ram (true? Stop me here if I am

Re: Which flavour for a 2GB RAM laptop?

2022-03-04 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/04/2022 04:47 AM, Ottavio Caruso wrote: One of my memory slot has died, so I am running a Thinkpad with 2GB ram I suspect the specific model of Thinkpad may be relevant. HTH only. I have been told that, even if I put a 4GB ram module in, it won't be as fast as 2x2GB ram (true? Stop me

Re: Which flavour for a 2GB RAM laptop?

2022-03-04 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-03-04 11:47 UTC+0100, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > One of my memory slot has died, so I am running a Thinkpad with 2GB ram > only. I have been told that, even if I put a 4GB ram module in, it won't > be as fast as 2x2GB ram (true? Stop me here if I am wrong). Never mind > put an 8GB