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    [–] dan@upvote.au 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

    You absolutely need swap on a low RAM system. It's the only way the system will actually be usable. You'll hit OOMs (out of memory errors) that take down the whole GUI if you turn off swap on a system with only 2GB RAM. You can only really turn off swap if you have a very large amount of RAM, and even then, it's safer to keep it enabled and set swappiness to 0 instead.

    [–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    most of these old systems dont have soldered RAM a few extra gig of DDR2 RAM would be dirt cheap on ebay too

    [–] dan@upvote.au 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    If you can find it :) DDR2 is old enough that a lot of it has been thrown out as e-waste. If you're lucky, you may be able to find some at a computer/electronics recycler for free.