My first hurdle is understanding that i need to add a boot sequence and navigate to the EFI file in my mounted pen drive.

second hurdle is understanding i need to disable secure boot so that the dell bios doesnt think something is wrong and always run the bios repair program.

third is understanding that i need to disable Intel rapid storage for the full install (luckily linux mint tells us this)

and honestly the hardest thing was installing fastfetch cuz theres a lot of outdated information out there on how to install it on Mint.

the process took about 4 hours, i consider it very lucky that i was able to do it so fast.

resources that helped me:

https://devicetests.com/boot-usb-uefi-mode-dell-inspiron-workaround

https://youtu.be/FY-OSdd1ByQ

  • db2@lemmy.world
    62·
    18 hours ago

    8GB is the practical minimum these days, most will go to your browser of choice unless it’s like Links or something.

    • Eugenia@lemmy.mlEnglish
      8·
      17 hours ago

      I run mint on 4 gb ram without issues. Sure, I’m careful to not open too many apps or too many tabs, but they all work fine. Only 4k video editing is undoable on such a machine. I also have a 4 gb swap partition, but I’m careful to lay off programs when I see it get hit.

      My mom uses xfce on a 2 gb laptop. For her is enough, because she only knows how to open a single tab on a browser (mostly fb or yt).

    • procapra@lemmy.ml
      1·
      14 hours ago

      My system uses under 4gb watching a 4k video on youtube. I can’t imagine many people are doing anything much more intensive than that.

        • procapra@lemmy.ml
          1·
          11 hours ago
          1. Vencord is running in the background.
          2. Most people aren’t watching YouTube in 4k on their computer
          3. I have a good bit of stuff cached in memory (as shown by the different colors in htop)
          • LeFantome@programming.dev
            1·
            10 hours ago

            4GB is usable. I am not trying to fight.

            I use quite a bit of old and underpowered kit. But I actually use it. The oldest laptop I use regularly is a 2009 MacBook Pro running Chimera Linux. It is only a Core 2 Duo but it has 8 GB of RAM. It runs all modern browsers and office suites. I can code on it. I can use Docker. I can do dev ops in the cloud. I can call into LLMs. Slow but capable. But I could not do much of this realistically with 4 GB (even slow).

            One thing I am not doing is watching videos in 4K. The resolution is 1440x900 so it does not quite display even 1080p natively (so 1080p or even 720p for me—which is totally fine). I suspect most people who really only have 4 GB of RAM are in a similar situation.