antiX for office work on computers with 2Gb or more of RAM

[Member PPC]

Dear forum members:

I’ve used Linux in my office for some 12 years and antiX for about half of that time. My old office desktop motherboard went to heaven a few days ago, and it’s replacement, a motherboard with a quad core and 2 GB of RAM and my old 2 hd (old spinning disks) is great for office work:
antiX running IceWM (no dekstop icons but with Conky running) with a nice looking theme (+ tint2 toolbar and a jgmenu- AKA FT10) + Firefox with 3 tabs open (one, very heavy- Gmail, this forum and one page I need for work), zzzfm with 3 tabs, Thunderbird, LibreOffice Writer

RAM usage: 1460mb, no Swap used
CPU usage: 11 – 13%

So, if you want to use antiX for real office work, with this very well known Open Source pieces of software (well zzzfm is a gem probably known only to us), you can do it- hell, you can use GUI scripts to mount Samba Shared Folders or Cloud Drives, so probably you can do most office work (involving webpages, e-mail, text documents or spreadsheets) with plenty of resources to spare, as long as you have more than 1 CPU core and 2Gb of RAM.

Edit: most modern OSes probably require about 1.4Gb of RAM just to be idle! If I really wanted I could, of course, shave one or two dozens of mb of RAM usage.
This system, on idle, uses about 150-160Mb of RAM and about 1% of CPU.

P.

• This topic was modified 11 months, 3 weeks ago by PPC.
• This topic was modified 11 months, 3 weeks ago by PPC.

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Hello PPC.

I agree with everything except:

(well zzzfm is a gem probably known only to us)

I think not…

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Hyperbola GNU
Ubuntu 20.04 and Devuan with JWM

Comparing to Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (which was abandoned on January 14, 2020) with an antivirus at startup consumes 1.3 GB of RAM memory without installing drivers, after installing drivers increases RAM consumption . Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit after installing to hard drive consumes about 18.3GB of space. Editions after Windows 7 do not have RAM memory consumption data.

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Olá PPC.

Eu concordo com tudo, exceto com:

(well zzzfm is a gem probably known only to us)

Eu acho que não…

Search Criteria – Arch Linux
Hyperbola GNU
Ubuntu 20.04 and Devuan with JWM

Comparando com o Windows 7 Ultimate de 64 bits (que foi abandonado no dia 14 de janeiro de 2020) com um antivírus na sua inicialização consomem 1,3 GB de memória RAM sem instalar os controladores, após a instalação dos controladores aumenta o consumo de RAM. O Windows 7 Ultimate de 64 bits após a instalação no disco rígido, consome cerca de 18,3 GB de espaço. As edições posteriores ao Windows 7 eu não tenho os dados de consumo de memória RAM.

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