If someone wants really low ram consumption for a desktop. They should try out tinycorelinux which I have ran the whole system in <25/20 MB of ram from its most minimal option.

It's truly the most minimalist gui option just out there. It uses flwm & there own iirc very minimalist xorg server but most apps usually work

The one issue I have is that I can't copy paste text or do some simple stuff like moving my mouse on some text but aside from that, Tinycorelinux's pretty good

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eth0up 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Can your "one issue" be tweaked by adding more RAM and allocating it thusly?

I'm using Void with 24gb ddr5 and frequently get system freezes during high productivity. Browser tabs in the background are often contributors, but working with openshot or odb crashes often.

I have several old nuc's and I might try tinycore on one. What do you or most others use it for, primarily?

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Imustaskforhelp 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I am not sure how my one issue can be fixed. It seems to be fundamentally an issue of their minimalist xorg server itself but I am pretty sure that there must be a way

> I'm using Void with 24gb ddr5 and frequently get system freezes during high productivity. Browser tabs in the background are often contributors, but working with openshot or odb crashes often.

Kdenlive's' pretty good for what its worth and I use Archlinux/cachy on an 8 gig system and browser tabs aren't that often atleast in here

> I have several old nuc's and I might try tinycore on one. What do you or most others use it for, primarily?

I used it to revive my 15 year old laptop and even ran complete modern firefox on it (its specs are 1 gigs 32 bit ram simple mini laptop) and ran wifi and ran firefox and ran pomodorokitty on it and I can sort of treat it as a second monitor

It's battery is removable so I am gonna change its battery as currently the setup takes time to install and I have to install it everytime I open/it shuts down which can happen quite a lot if I don't have it plugged in so currently its shutdown for over a month but I really liked the tinkering I did with when I ran pomodorokitty on it

	▲	fenykep 7 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I'm not sure if I understood your issue correctly but you can persist your configuration with all diskless (os is entirely in RAM) OSs as far as I know. This way you wouldn't have to install the setup after every reboot. Here is the guide for tinycore: https://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/doku.php?id=wiki:persistence_...

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zozbot234 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

If the system totally freezes such that you can't even ssh in, that's just flaky hardware and you should replace it.