Re: Which flavour for a 2GB RAM laptop?

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>]

On 03/04/2022 04:47 AM, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
> One of my memory slot has died, so I am running a Thinkpad with 2GB ram 

I suspect the specific model of Thinkpad may be relevant.
HTH

> only. I have been told that, even if I put a 4GB ram module in, it won't 
> be as fast as 2x2GB ram (true? Stop me here if I am wrong). Never mind 
> put an 8GB stick; it might not even work.
>
> At the moment I'm running a heavily hacked LMDE4 (Buster) with a lot of 
> Mint customisations off. What flavour of Debian should I replace my 
> LMDE4 with? And does it make any difference? My memory hogs are Chromium 
> and Firefox, the rest is ok.
>
> Thanks, merci, grazie.