Comment on I hate Android!

NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  But that said: I would love to replace it all with a true Linux phone.

  4GB RAM, a modern web browser, and no swap file/partition. That doesn’t work well anywhere. Not Android, not GNU/Linux, not Windows, not macOS.

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  • Oisteink@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Bullshit

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    • testaccount789@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I felt like I should add something to defense side, so I did a quick install of Linux Mint limited to 4GB of RAM, with no swap.
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      I didn’t know what to run, so here’s LibreOffice Impress, SuperTuxKart, and Firefox with this Lemmy post open, streaming internet radio, playing 1080p YouTube video, and an additional tab with forum post about forcing software rendering as SuperTuxKart was horribly broken inside the VM.

      Fits into the 4GB.

      Additionally, just for fun, you can see the RAM usage on my host, also nearing full usage. You may also see a pretty solid benchmark of the VM disk in the screenshot. This is because I installed the VM into tmpfs on the host.

      Seems pretty damn usable, even for some multi-tasking.

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    • jnod4@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      True, we were running windows 7 with 4gb of ram, gaming with YouTube in the background getting notifications from some Skype with lots of Facebook messages pinging as well and an android would never. Why?

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  • vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    ah today’s young ones… can’t imagine a whole computer with less than 128 mb of ram and still being able to multitask better than a phone with 12g of ram

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    • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      ah today’s young ones…

      Thanks.

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