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    [–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

    Because these people are trying to get an OS running on 15 year old dumpster dived laptops. It's kind of a Linux thing to get it running usably on the biggest old piece of shit you can find. I've done similar myself with a Pentium II machine from the late 90s in 2015.

    People with modern multiple cores and dozens of GB of RAM are not usually worried about these things.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

    Honestly fedora with i3 runs well enough on my pentium 4 laptop. It just overheats in summer sometimes. I am thinking about trying LFS on my desktop one day though. That would probably be the least bloat possible for a setup that I'm happy with and I could make fun of arch users.