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Immutable Linux for low end PCs? (lemmy.world)
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I have a laptop with 4 GB of RAM that I'd like to use for occasional comic book reading. (It's a touch screen 2-in-1 laptop that folds over into a tablet configuration.) I use Bazzite on my main PC and I love how low maintenance it is. Are there any immutable/atomic distros that featue XFCE, LXDE, or some other low RAM friendly desktop? Or, should I just layer XFCE or LXDE on top of UBlue Core or make my own image or something? Thanks!

EDIT: Thanks everyone for the feedback and quality discussion! It looks like the best options for immutable have a learning curve or time commitment attached (e.g. NixOS). For a daily driver computer it might be worth the trouble to learn, but in this case I decided to just go with standard Fedora XFCE for now.

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I personally am using Fedora KDE on a old chromebook with 4GB of ram but I'm thinking about switching to Fedora Kinoite. From my experience 4GB is plenty for a Linux machine as long as you aren't using things that are ram heavy. Firefox based browsers do especially well as Firefox writes inactive tabs to disk

[–] exdor@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I can recommend universal blues base kinoite image as it includes distrobox, all video codecs and has an nvidia variant for the poor nvidia users

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't actually need any of that but I am thinking about using Forgejo actions to build a custom image

[–] exdor@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah that would be the "cloud native" way XD

I have used Gitea actions and container registry before, it is okay.