[schemescape]

> I have a machine with 2GB of ram and a single core CPU. It's a low power rig. But cannot run Windows 10, it just about did when I first installed it. Debian runs better, but a browser kills it. It's a one app only.

I put Alpine Linux on my laptop that has 1 GB of RAM and I can actually have a lot of stuff running at once, especially in the terminal (Emacs, SBCL, w3m, Deno).

But yes, opening Firefox consumes all available RAM until I have to power off the machine, sadly. The lightest weight, but functional browser, I've found is Midori, but I probably wouldn't trust it for, say, accessing my bank account.

It's depressing because I was initially blown away at how fast (and productive) old hardware can be... until I tried to use the web.

[chickenfeed]

Weird isn't it. I used to run Opera on a Pentium 200 with a pitiful amount of ram.

Oh how times change.