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Anon time travels (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 6 days ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] jim3692@discuss.online 16 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I have an HP laptop with a Ryzen 5 3500U and 8GB RAM. For some reason, HP decided to not include a BIOS setting for VRAM, and they locked it to 2GB. So, the usable memory is 6GB, which is low even for Linux.

Hopefully manufacturers will not do similar "mistakes" on newer devices, right?

[–] OR3X@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

So, the usable memory is 6GB, which is low even for Linux.

Most Linux distros recommend (not minimum) 4GB of RAM on their system requirements pages. I'm running Debian on a laptop with 4GB and it's perfectly usable. You might want to try a different distro if it's struggling with 6GB.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

IMO, you can totally run a Linux desktop on 4 GB RAM, but a webbrowser on top of any OS? That's going to become a pain in the ass.

[–] notthebees@reddthat.com 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I think igpu maxes out at 2 gb for dedicated. Besides windows will share ram with igpu. Linux too.

Edit: now I understand. That is unfortunate.