• IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.world
      61·
      5 hours ago

      Because the hardware is obviously underspecced for any browser. I doubt they could even run a modern OS with a light DE. You’d need to already know what you’re doing if you willingly commit to specs this low.

      • nyan@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        2 hours ago

        I doubt they could even run a modern OS with a light DE.

        They could, actually—it’s been about a year since I retired a machine with specs as bad or worse that ran Gentoo with TDE, and it was useful enough for many things. Web browsing was not one of those things, however.

      • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
        4·
        4 hours ago

        Hmm. So the assumption is then this is a troll post? Maybe the person doesn’t know and is new to this, got a free old laptop in example. You might be right that the system is underspecced for most normal usage and deeper knowledge to work with it might be required. But I don’t get why the person is downvoted for asking the question. Unless its a troll off course, if that is the assumption.

        • IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.world
          5·
          4 hours ago

          When you add the fact that the main question contains emojis it destroys any bit of seriousness in the question. Emojis have their places but not when you want to be taken seriously. This post could not be a clearer example of a shitpost/troll post.

  • Fatur.New@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    12 hours ago

    Disable javascript by using ublock origin. I also suggest using a lightweight UI like Xfce or LXQT and 32-bit Linux OS

    I am sorry if my english is bad

  • TruePe4rl@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    9 hours ago

    Maybe luakit, If you want gui. Dillo, if you don’t care about the looks. And w3m for terminal.

  • PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de
    18·
    19 hours ago

    Even with a tiny OS and desktop, 2GB RAM is gonna fill up super fast. Modern websites are bloated af, there’s no browser in the world that can fix that

    • db2@lemmy.world
      4·
      17 hours ago

      Haiku would scream on that, but I’m not sure on the browser situation. On any OS any browser lately is a memory hog.

  • FLD@retrolemmy.com
    3·
    13 hours ago

    try Waterfox, it is great for browsing the modern web on a low ram

    if it didn’t work, i guess you have to sacrifice some usability by using Falkon or any much lighter browsers (not much good for modern web browsing)

  • JTskulk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    20 hours ago

    links. I ran firefox on a 4G RAM laptop until recently and it was painful and always swapping.

    • FLD@retrolemmy.com
      2·
      13 hours ago

      have you tried Waterfox? it is much lighter and based on Firefox. I use this on my 4GB RAM laptop and it worked fine

  • deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de
    18·
    22 hours ago

    This is an absolutely bottom of the barrel machine nowadays. You’ll be able to run Linux on it, but nothing is going to run “fast”. Especially not a webbrowser with modern websites.

    If you’re actually considering using this machine, the two most important upgrades you can make are SSD instead of HDD, and a bit more RAM (8GB if possible). With the ~2011-2012 CPU (judging by the release date of the iGPU listed) and the mentioned upgrades, you should have a usable (although slow) workstation for light tasks. Without the upgrades, be prepared to wait for things to load.

  • pineapple@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    16 hours ago

    Might need to make sacrifices such as disabling JS or loading images. Browsers and web pages are so bloated, you won’t be able to get a modern experience with that hardware.