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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Broski, Linux is as complicated as you want it to be. There are several "distributions" or distros out there. You can find distributions that are just command line interface (command prompt) which is great if you want the lightest OS to run tasks and scripts etc. You can probably run these with 1gb of ram or even less.

Then you have distributions that are more robust, designed for your everyday user. Some that i have used are Ubuntu, Fedora, Redhat.

These have GUI or a graphical user interface so they should feel like a simple version of windows but without any bloat ware or services you don't need.

You can ask Google or this community on which distro is best for you depending on your needs.

Installing any distro is as easy as installing windows.

  1. Load up a distro on an USB
  2. Have a PC with a drive with space for another OS or just have a PC with an empty hard drive.
  3. Install and follow the prompts.

You'll then be able to search the webs for freeware, for your new OS

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You can definitely run Debian with less than 1GB for a low resource server, like an in house SVN repo, sftp server, etc.