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I have a Dell Optiplex 7010 Mini-Tower, Quad Core i7 3770 (3.4GHz), 16GB DDR3 SDRAM, 1TB Hard Drive; Windows 7 Pro 64-bit on the internal HDD and MX Linux 17.1 64-bit on the secondary (mobile-rack) SSD. I'm looking into getting a VPN set-up exclusively on the Linux dedicated SSD. I have whittled ...

I am preparing a custom build focused on Win 7 Home and MX Linux 17.1. The build will be mostly for surfing the internet, and streaming movies from sites like putlockers, 123movies, Youtube, etc., but I might be doing occasional video encoding/editing if I ever find anything worth burning to DVD ...

considering that everything you do with a computer is so regressive, i think your proposed set up is massive overkill

why on earth would you want 32 gigs of RAM just to run slimjet and office 2003?


i know linux is all about choice and i have read your posts about why you run antiquated software ...

I am preparing a custom build focused on Win 7 Home and MX Linux 17.1. The build will be mostly for surfing the internet, and streaming movies from sites like putlockers, 123movies, Youtube, etc., but I might be doing occasional video encoding/editing if I ever find anything worth burning to DVD. I ...

Maximum RAM is limited by your hardware and firmware rather than by Linux, although I think there's a memory limit parameter in the kernels. Don't forget that Linux (though not MX which is a desktop distro) is used on a lot of servers and some of those have tons of RAM in them, 128GB, 256GB or ...

Maybe he is building something from antique or old stuff (16/32GB signals a phased out server) which he thinks would run better on MX17 or he'd run some special programs which supports Win7 only (EOL). Only he knows that I guess...or is he doing a time travel ?


CPU: i7-4790k

Cooler: Noctua NH ...

Forget of any practical desktop user limit of RAM in 64bits linux. If you are installing 32bit, linux PAE can address upto 64GB. Win 7 Home Premium 64bit can support upto 16GB, all 32bit upto 4GB.


Good to know. I like the idea of having more RAM than I'll probably ever need, but having more ...

genericmeatsack wrote: Tue Mar 23, 2021 8:59 am Linux works fine with 32 gb ram.

Looks like the check mark is not a like button. Sorry. Thanks for letting me know that at least one OS can handle 32GB RAM!

I am looking into doing a custom build having Win 7 and MX Linux on separate HDD and SSD. I'm deciding on whether to go for 16GB RAM or 32GB. The Win 7 can only use 16GB. Can MX Linux 17.1 use more than 16GB?

I was conflicted on where to place this post...Hardware or Older versions. A coin toss decided. So I'm doing Google research on SSD+Linux, was lead into optimization, then found these links:

https://wiki.debian.org/SSDOptimization
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git ...