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plateee@piefed.social 18 hours agoI’d be happy with just installing full blown Linux on my pixel a la graphene.
Surely this Pixel 7 Pro has enough oomph to do some of my games.
Lojcs@piefed.social 18 hours ago
I think memory is going to be the limiting factor. 12 gigs is very limiting on non-console systems
soulsource@discuss.tchncs.de 3 hours ago
For a typical desktop Linux 12 GiB should be fine.
It depends on what you do with the system, of course. If you regularly compile big and template-heavy C++ codebases, work with Blender,… then 12 GiB won’t be enough.
(What really surprised me was how much can still be done with just 4 GiB of memory. My laptop is currently limited to 4 GiB, and with some effort to set up a minimalist system it’s working surprisingly well. I barely ever hit the memory limit - actually only when compiling big template-heavy C++ codebases 😉.)
Lojcs@piefed.social 1 hour ago
Gaming, as they were wondering if their phone had the oomph to do it.
xthexder@l.sw0.com 16 hours ago
This is just nuts to me… My first laptop came with 512MB of RAM and only supported up to 2GB. They were still selling Macbook Pros with only 8GB of memory a year or two ago.
12GB SHOULD be enough to do everything, especially if it’s running a linux OS. But I guess we can’t have nice things because of memory hogs like Chrome.