I had an Aspire One D270 laptop with a 32-bit Intel Atom CPU and 1 gigabyte of RAM, so I installed Debian with Xfce on it, but even then it’s running way too slow.

Is there anything I can do to make the laptop faster and more responsive given its limited memory?

      • @ctenidium
        1•6 months ago

        I thought it’s either swap or ZRAM - could you use both at the same time?

        • boredsquirrel
          5•6 months ago

          Yes Fedora uses swap and zram by default. Just compresses the memory in RAM (more memory available) and on disk (less data written, less wear)

          • @ctenidium
            2•6 months ago

            Wow, that’s supercool actually! I had no idea…

    • @[email protected]
      7•6 months ago

      This will be the single biggest change you can make. Swapping an hdd for a cheap 256gb ssd will make a bigger difference than any DE changes.