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    RAM??? Let use GDrive as swap (lemm.ee)
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    [–] pancakesyrupyum@kbin.social 13 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    2016
    Hmm. There’s no reason anything that supports 6gb RAM shouldn’t run Linux. I’ve janked together much worse Lubuntu rigs before.

    [–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

    Exactly. Should have run. Something in the hardware it didn't like. Just got a black screen with a flashing cursor. Never got past that point.

    [–] Bandicoot_Academic@lemmy.one 8 points 8 months ago

    That sounds like a problem with the graphics drivers

    [–] Hexarei@programming.dev 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    Next step from there is to find out what graphics hardware it has and try to see if you can get a distro that's known working with it

    [–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    Technically, the next step would be retrieving it from the landfill it got sent to.

    [–] Hexarei@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago

    Well then, guess that clears that up

    [–] limelight79@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago

    Yeah, very odd. A few weeks ago, I retired a computer that had 4 GB of RAM that was doing server duties, running Debian. It was doing a great job until I tried running a virtual machine on it (for Home Assistant); that was just killing the poor thing. The processor was a Core 2 Quad that was introduced in 2008, so I got plenty of life out of that setup.

    [–] nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 8 months ago

    Indeed. The problem was probably something else. If it couldn't even boot, maybe they tried using a image for tbe wrong architecture, or some driver issue?