Fricking bloat!
I'm trying to find a distro that fits entirely in the 8gb so I can fit it entirely in ram on an old dell I fixed so I can use it as a snappy little streaming box (because I don't have a spare harddrive and am too lazy to buy one).
Ubuntu mate (A supposed "lightweight" distro!) BASE install is much too fat to fit (remember I need to fit the whole OS, all installed programs plus firefox/chrome/MPV into 8gb of ram).
Antix is nice at 750mb, but it doesn't include the display drivers out of the box and doesn't include any easy way to install them (and to boot lshw on my dell returns many weird and some outright wrong infomation)
Neither ubuntu or antix managed wifi drivers, or even to detect the card.
My point is devshits have pissed away 10 years of hardware advancement and could u plz recommend a distro
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You're being difficult and confusing. You want to set up a computer without a harddrive? What are you booting it off of? Can't you just use that for storage?
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Yes
a usb 2.0 and no, because the load times on anything is insane.
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What's wrong with Debian?
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I've had it be hit or miss in the past when it comes to drivers.
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download the nonfree drivers iso. actually you might not even need to i think they changed it so the regular one prompts you now
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