64-bit Linux runs fine with 2 GB of RAM, but you have to be careful not to use a Gnome-based DE and you also have to use a Webkit-based browser. (Nothing Chromium based and Firefox should preferably be avoided, and it's also good to avoid having the Telegram app)

GNOME eats up around 500MB of RAM. That's still doable on a 2GB system.

Firefox will typically be 200-500MB too. Also doable.

would agree on avoiding webkit/chromium.

Nova Forte: wait, are you telling me i could have kept my 2gb machine by just installing linux instead of downgrading windows?

It is possible to run Firefox on 2 GB of RAM in a Gnome environment, but be prepared for swap usage.

If you weren't multitasking, you can probably get by fine without using any swap :p

Nova Forte: wait, are you telling me i could have kept my 2gb machine by just installing linux instead of downgrading windows?

well sure

The 2GB system is low end, you won't be blazing everything all at once on it. But you'd be a lot better off than with Windows 10/11

Nova Forte: wait, are you telling me i could have kept my 2gb machine by just installing linux instead of downgrading windows?

If your hardware doesn't have other issues (be it physical or driver incompatibility), I'd say yes.

If we were talking about KDE though.... that demands like 2× as much memory as GNOME. You'd really be putting pressure on it that route. On the lighter side, there's LXQt made specifically for low-end systems.

With LXQt, you could probably manage Firefox and LibreOffice running simultaneously on a 2GB system with little to no swapping.

Swap usage is acceptable, so much so that I even like to increase Linux's swapiness to have more free memory. The problem is when you run very heavy programs that are doing short-term page swap, in this case, the situation is critical to the point that the system presents the symptoms of thrashing (inconvenient slowness).

it does prefer to swap out inactive pages first :p

Nova Forte: what an amazing kernel

So as a test, 2GB system, Firefox open, LibreOffice open with a large document. Very managable. swapspace installed to dynamically create swap files as needed. None created yet with just these two programs.

roshope: 💡 here's your daily reminder about not to Linux in a ReactOS chat, as such kind of discussion may be intolerable to the NT kernel people

Nova Forte: but they share so much, like for example working fine with 2gb ram

roshope: 💡 here's your daily reminder about not to Linux in a ReactOS chat, as such kind of discussion may be intolerable to the NT kernel people

In any case, I think it is necessary to criticize the inefficiency and excessive hardware requirement of Microsoft's Windows, because this is a problem and nobody can deny it, I'm sure that the ReactOS development team itself has its disagreements regarding the decisions Microsoft's strategic Sometimes we have to compare with other operating systems, to prove that this can be different and still be properly functional in 2023.

ReactOS is pretty lightweight :P

well, the one more picture I'd share. ReactOS paint running fine too. :P

True, ReactOS is quite lightweight, but it still needs a lot of work to be able to be a real Windows alternative.

indeed

Nova Forte: based reactos

i love paint

In any case, I think it is necessary to criticize the inefficiency and excessive hardware requirement of Microsoft's Windows, because this is a problem and nobody can deny it, I'm sure that the ReactOS development team itself has its disagreements regarding the decisions Microsoft's strategic Sometimes we have to compare with other operating systems, to prove that this can be different and still be properly functional in 2023.

yes, now linux and mac os are eating their OS market share

Not really

android did it actually

maybe reactOS could be to Windows what Linux is to Unix

True, ReactOS is quite lightweight, but it still needs a lot of work to be able to be a real Windows alternative.

Because RoS lacks of some services that runs on background in windows

Our svchost.exe is running only implemented services

Out there are some trimmed windows xp versions that have erased a lot of things, is the very barebone, and still needs 256mb of space

There is more ram needed to run all exploits that will fly your way if you connect xp to the internet now

Because RoS lacks of some services that runs on background in windows

It's not just because of that, actually the lack of second services isn't really a big problem for ReactOS usability. The problem is that there is still a lot that needs to be fixed in terms of compatibility with software, drivers and hardware. It still lacks support for systems with more than 1 CPU core, for SATA connection, among other problems that everyone is tired of knowing. Where else there is work to be done is in the kernel.

"I do run ReactOS on a Core i7 bla bla bla" Yes, but it runs like a 1-core Core i7, so that limits performance a lot.

There is more ram needed to run all exploits that will fly your way if you connect xp to the internet now

Nova Forte: jokes on you, all the shellcodes are 64bit, so my 32bit xp is safe and will just crash with illegal instruction

as time goes on, reactOS will become a much better operating system than now

that's the general plan of all software

you deserve belgium

France even

/report

Fuck i hate clicking on shit

roshope: 🙄

roshope: 🤨

another dubious money making scheme

https://twitter.com/reactos/status/1642122982003810305

another dubious money making scheme

hacker420: bold of you to assume you'd make money

Hyperbased in Hyperspace: another man for belgium

Let's port Reactos to itanium! This architecture leads to the future!!!

Also, let's add support for Macromedia flash and real player!

Let's port Reactos to itanium! This architecture leads to the future!!!

🐠

port reactOS to RISC-V

Let's port Reactos to itanium! This architecture leads to the future!!!

roshope: unobtanium

roshope: m68k looks more perspective architecture for me

roshope: m68k looks more perspective architecture for me

What about z80?

https://twitter.com/reactos/status/1642122982003810305

i hope someday come layer feature :)

What about z80?

roshope: yes

TRON achitecture

lol :p

(joke) also superH is good too

In a moment of "easily amused"... having VBox with two virtual monitors and putting it back to windowed mode, and the two screens are not the same resolution. It just ends up looking funny to me, especially with my host WM shadow overcasting the middle.

In a moment of "easily amused"... having VBox with two virtual monitors and putting it back to windowed mode, and the two screens are not the same resolution. It just ends up looking funny to me, especially with my host WM shadow overcasting the middle.

Samsung foldable phones be like....

hmm?

I saw one myself

it reminds me of the same effect

😂"Get up! Or your PC will automatically download some random trash softwares!" "But I use ReactOS😶"

Windows 12 already here huh

Windows 12 already here huh

wow

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/windows-12-may-be-stripped-down-to-enable-frequent-updates/ar-AA19gzsO

windows becoming more like linux in therms of modularity according to a rumor

What about z80?

Reactos running on the ENIAC

Then in the Z1

And in the Charles Babage's machine

(joke) nah, it must run on punching tape instead

(joke) nah, it must run on punching tape instead

In fact it can (theorically) as punch cards are storage devices

Anybody could save reactos binaries into a bunch of punched cards