Re: [orca-list] Accessible distros

[Kyle <kyle4jesus gmail com>]

Wow I would say that's probably not enough resources. I believe that's more than 
good enough to run Linux, but if ms works at all, it will be quite sluggish even 
as a secondary boot partition. And I wouldn't try even putting a Linux vm on top 
of the Linux host on that machine. I know little of what ms is requiring these 
days, but I seem to recall that they require 4GB of RAM at the very least now. I 
actually thought it was 8 to do anything useful, but 4 I think is the bare 
minimum. On the other hand, Linux+MATE can do rather well with 3.2GiB, and even 
2 is satisfactory with as little as 1GiB of swapspace. I have roughly 2GB of RAM 
on the system I'm using to write this, and it's Linux+MATE with Pidgin, Firefox 
and Seamonkey Mail along with a terminal shell running at once pretty much all 
the time. I do have swapspace, because I run builds, and because both Firefox 
and Seamonkey both tend to spike and kill stuff if I don't. But in most cases, 
my machine works fine. I wouldn't dare put a more resource intensive OS on this 
thing though, and of course ms won't even run on this, as it's not Intel/AMD x86_64.
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