My wife @eugenialoli has been working on installing Linux on various old computers for which a lot of other options are now unsupported.
She's been finding that machines with 2GB or RAM or 16GB of storage tend to struggle, whether while installing the OS, booting, installing common apps or running those apps.
2GB of RAM is an incredibly large amount. As is 16GB of storage.
WTF are we software people doing as an industry that makes us consume so many resources?
