This is an absolutely bottom of the barrel machine nowadays. You’ll be able to run Linux on it, but nothing is going to run “fast”. Especially not a webbrowser with modern websites.
If you’re actually considering using this machine, the two most important upgrades you can make are SSD instead of HDD, and a bit more RAM (8GB if possible). With the ~2011-2012 CPU (judging by the release date of the iGPU listed) and the mentioned upgrades, you should have a usable (although slow) workstation for light tasks. Without the upgrades, be prepared to wait for things to load.
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Why do people downvote this question?
Because the hardware is obviously underspecced for any browser. I doubt they could even run a modern OS with a light DE. You’d need to already know what you’re doing if you willingly commit to specs this low.
I doubt they could even run a modern OS with a light DE.
They could, actually—it’s been about a year since I retired a machine with specs as bad or worse that ran Gentoo with TDE, and it was useful enough for many things. Web browsing was not one of those things, however.
Hmm. So the assumption is then this is a troll post? Maybe the person doesn’t know and is new to this, got a free old laptop in example. You might be right that the system is underspecced for most normal usage and deeper knowledge to work with it might be required. But I don’t get why the person is downvoted for asking the question. Unless its a troll off course, if that is the assumption.
When you add the fact that the main question contains emojis it destroys any bit of seriousness in the question. Emojis have their places but not when you want to be taken seriously. This post could not be a clearer example of a shitpost/troll post.
I guess I would be a terrible Moderator, lol. Thanks for taking the time to explain your view.
You’re a moderator of which community ?
I’m not a moderator. I meant I would be a terrible moderator, if I were one.
So emojis ought to be avoided in posts ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_lightweight_web_browsers
I’d recomamend Falkon/qutebrowser, or else NetSurf, Dillo, Links.
Or surf, w3m, uzbl for keyboard-only use, i have no experience with them.
Qutebrowser
CPU??? Only the most important spec is omitted?
After seeing it only has 2gb of RAM does it really matter? Guessing a Pentium of some kind…
Lynx
none. 15 year old apu, slow laptop hdd, 2gb ram (some consumed by the graphics). cpu performance of the earliest s939 dual core athlons.
put a puppy or antix on it, i guess, and hope for the best. with the 8gb max and a small sata ssd it could run something more mainstream.
Yeah, none are going to be fast. Browsing is going to be slow no matter what, unless you use something like lynx. The best I can give you is Falkon, but don’t open many tabs.
Do you suppose window managers would perform well in such cases ???
Sure, a WM will run fine and leaves you with more resources to work with. Your setup will still struggle running a modern browser.
Maybe Pale Moon, Basilisk or maybe some WebKit-based browser like LuaKit or similar, or Chawan if u want to go hardcore.
Also please use a WM, not a DE, maybe PekWM if u’re on X11 or something similar on Wayland.
Try to use some tweaks such as Ananicy, Bpftune, gamemode (and use only one or two programs at once), try to get some disk swap, and use ZRAM or ZSwap to avoid overusing your (slow) disk swap.
links. I ran firefox on a 4G RAM laptop until recently and it was painful and always swapping.
have you tried Waterfox? it is much lighter and based on Firefox. I use this on my 4GB RAM laptop and it worked fine
I have a laptop from this century now (16G) and I like mainline firefox lol. Thanks though :)
I have two netbooks with Atom processors, 2 GB RAM and one of them has an HDD instead of an SSD. I tried plenty of graphical browsers and Min was the best by far. Neither Firefox, Chromium, Falkon, Midori or GNOME Web could work at least partially smoothly in those machines. Min was not a panacea, but it was definitely more usable.
get more ram asap if you can
alpine linux, tho it still won’t run smoothly i’m afraid, and you’d probably want a super minimal window manager like dwm or sxwm
