my extremely crappy cherrytrail atom laptop came with 2gb of ram and win10 32bit. no other os works properly so i just heavily optimized the thing to use like 200mb ram idle. slow but usable.
…but to do this i had to replace explorer.exe with bbzero and get rid of basically every service lol
My laptop with 4gb of ram and atom processor came with Windows 10 (I purchased it intending to put Linux on it). I tried it out just to see how W10 worked on it and it was absolutely excruciating and borderline unusable, and I was coming from a Pentium M with 512mb of ram. I have no idea how anyone would have thought it could be a functional system running that.
I cannot imagine how disgustingly slow your college ones are compared to my high school’s ones, which are 16gb ram, i7 boxes running windows 11. They are pretty damn slow even after they recently upgraded them a month ago.
For most things, I just use my laptop since it stutters much less, but using pycharm on my laptop is pretty much impossible due to its lack of specs, so I begrudgingly use the PC.
Those windows ram requirements are only to boot into the system, no way 2gb or 4gb enough for normal use
my extremely crappy cherrytrail atom laptop came with 2gb of ram and win10 32bit. no other os works properly so i just heavily optimized the thing to use like 200mb ram idle. slow but usable.
…but to do this i had to replace explorer.exe with bbzero and get rid of basically every service lol
My laptop with 4gb of ram and atom processor came with Windows 10 (I purchased it intending to put Linux on it). I tried it out just to see how W10 worked on it and it was absolutely excruciating and borderline unusable, and I was coming from a Pentium M with 512mb of ram. I have no idea how anyone would have thought it could be a functional system running that.
The PCs at my college has only 4GB of RAM with Windows 10. I hate having to use them cause they are so slow.
I cannot imagine how disgustingly slow your college ones are compared to my high school’s ones, which are 16gb ram, i7 boxes running windows 11. They are pretty damn slow even after they recently upgraded them a month ago.
For most things, I just use my laptop since it stutters much less, but using pycharm on my laptop is pretty much impossible due to its lack of specs, so I begrudgingly use the PC.