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Win10 just doesn't work well on 2GiB. Compressed pages are nice but not enough to prevent swapping. It also doesn't help that MS prevents you from running 32-bit on modern hardware to alleviate some of the memory pressure.

The solution is to install 32-bit Linux on it. Then it won't suck.

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Windows works great, the issue is the applications, and indirectly the developers of said applications, some of which are on HN.

Most applications are requesting hundreds of megabytes if not entire gigabytes, the system will swap to death after you open an app and a browser tab on facebook.

I remember a friend who bought a 2GB netbook, the thing froze to death whenever he opened just eclipse, he had to return it.

Or i386 OpenBSD.

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