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 tends 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?
@jbqueru @eugenialoli would #HaikuOS be/have been useful? Do people need most of the apps installed by default in a typical Linux distro? I tend to start with Debian netinst and build on top of it. It has gotten more laborious (or I am jaded) but it can keep disk usage creep under control.
And, of course, the frittering away of compute and storage by software is by design, for the upgrade treadmill.
@tetrislife @jbqueru Even Haiku is bloated. It consumes 330 MB of RAM on a clean boot, when BeOS could run at 32 MB, and while Haiku doesn't really do all that much more than what BeOS used to do (except running ported Linux apps).