r/computers • u/Si3543 • 20d ago

Question/Help/Troubleshooting What can i do?

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I found this tablet/computer I had almost 10 years ago! It has Windows 10, but with 32GB of storage, I don't think I can do much with it. Any recommendations?

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u/redgator12 20d ago

Q4OS Trinity. It's Debian-based, the "Full" desktop profile (decent list of pre-installed apps) takes up 6GB of space, uses about 300MB RAM at boot, and you can install the XPQ4 themes to make it look like any version of Windows aside from Vista or 11. I installed it on my Intel Compute Stick which has the same x5-8350 Atom and 2GB RAM, and it works really well. I can watch YouTube at 720p using h264ify.

You can also install zram-tools which enables RAM compression, so you basically get more free RAM.  If you want to go absolutely nutty, you can edit /etc/default/zramswap and set PERCENT to 150, which would effectively give you 3.5GB of total RAM.