smaug Hallo, can you plaese tell me the min. RAM for installing and using Solus 4.1 safely. Thanks a lot for you response and have a nice weekend. smaug
vyzle I'm running with 3.2GB with Solus Plasma. Put a swap partition in but it never seems to get used. Seems to run fine for an 8yr old laptop.
Brucehankins I'd say the DE will make some small difference. I've run Budgie, Mate, and Plasma on 4GB comfortably, but you can definitely notice some slow downs with multitasking and working with larger files. 8GB will give you a very nice experience.
vyzle Brucehankins I think you're totally right. I did a bit of digital darkroom with Rawtherapee and it definitely struggled a bit. However it's fine for browsing, music, movie playback and documents and for me it's a huge bonus not having to bin a laptop that was getting unusable under win 10. I know Solus isn't designed for low spec/old machines but it works great on my old HP dv6. If I was getting a new laptop I'd get at least 8gb in it, but if you're stuck with 3gb then I reckon Solus is worth a punt.