Re: [orca-list] Accessible distros

[John G Heim <jheim math wisc edu>]

You'd have to run Win7.  For people like me who absolutely have to run 
Windows once in a great while, Win7 is the answer.

On 12/2/18 2:04 PM, Kyle via orca-list wrote:
> 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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