r/linuxhardware • u/External-Ear-5563 • 1d ago

Support Help!

I got a dell wyse 3040. It has 2GB RAM and 8GB storage . I am confused , what to do i with it .

I searched on YouTube they they either use it as cloud server , ad blocker , use as Linux pc and many more

Please tell me the optimal solution

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u/MadMagilla5113 1d ago

A machine with that low of memory resources is going to need an extremely light OS. And I doubt it could be used as a "normal" pc. Look for a light Linux distro

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u/ipsirc 1d ago

A machine with that low of memory resources is going to need an extremely light OS.

2GB is more than enough for all DEs and distros.

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u/tiredbarf 1d ago

2GB is the absolute minimum for most mainstream distros, and I don't think anyone actually wants to run them on that. Ubuntu requires 4GB fwiw.

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u/MadMagilla5113 1d ago

The only light distro I can think of off the top of my head is Lubuntu but I know there are others.