• pancakesyrupyum@kbin.social
    15·
    10 months ago

    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.ukEnglish
      9·
      10 months ago

      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.

      • Hexarei
        5·
        10 months ago

        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.ukEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

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

    • limelight79@lemm.ee
      7·
      10 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.