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#26 2025-01-13 11:47:22
- Head_on_a_Stick
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Re: Reducing RAM Usage
gotta 7800xt
OpenBSD 7.6 ported the Linux 6.6.52 DRM stack so that card should work just fine :-)
EDIT: best to install from a snapshot, which is the rolling release version of OpenBSD: https://www.openbsd.org/faq/current.html
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#27 2025-01-13 11:59:25
- jl2
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Re: Reducing RAM Usage
OpenBSD 7.6 ported the Linux 6.6.52 DRM stack so that card should work just fine :-)
* does full disk backup *
edit: that's actually a damn smart way to get HW support
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Why I run Arch? To "BTW I run Arch" the guy one grade younger.
And to let my siblings and cousins laugh at Arsch Linux...
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#28 2025-01-13 17:35:33
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Re: Reducing RAM Usage
It's not for me; it's for my mates. But I can't suggest to my classmates to get the source and compile it with their preferred flags.
You can have generic and bloated or specific and tight - not generic and tight at the same time.
Arch is not tinycore and does not strive to be tinycore (or any similar distribution) and it will shovel lots of stuff onto your disk and and load lots of stuff into your RAM that you don't really need.
I think Arch is good for beginners to use because
No. It is absolutely not.
It'll require some understanding of the system to be present or acquired - the latter meaning lots of reading. Probably way too much if you're starting at base 0.
Beginners are much better off with a (likewise not stripped down, still not 16MB RAM total) largely preset click-install-and-run distro to explore the system before learning how to skate on it.
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#29 2025-01-13 20:28:00
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Re: Reducing RAM Usage
scarletjacquetta wrote:I think Arch is good for beginners to use because
No. It is absolutely not.
Bro is literally supplying us with archinstall newbies. @scarletjacquetta Did you install the correct default way? -> https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Installation_guide
The default TTY will shield us off (hopefully).
(I just hope they won't top the dude that had freezes b/c he installed Arch on a USB drive that probably had a faulty cable)
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Why I run Arch? To "BTW I run Arch" the guy one grade younger.
And to let my siblings and cousins laugh at Arsch Linux...
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