On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 4:58 AM Christian Britz <cbr...@t-online.de> wrote:
> > On 2022-03-04 11:47 UTC+0100, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > > One of my memory slot has died, so I am running a Thinkpad with 2GB ram > > only. I have been told that, even if I put a 4GB ram module in, it won't > > be as fast as 2x2GB ram (true? Stop me here if I am wrong). Never mind > > put an 8GB stick; it might not even work. > > As far as I know this depends on the design / architecture of the > chipset / motherboard. > More specifically, get ahold of the doc for your specific model of Thinkpad. Lenovo/IBM are better than average for making it available online. There will be a short section on RAM configuration. In general, using interleaving across "banks" should be done with sticks at identical design frequencies and sizes. But often there you have a choice of interleaving style. > > At the moment I'm running a heavily hacked LMDE4 (Buster) with a lot of > > Mint customisations off. What flavour of Debian should I replace my > > LMDE4 with? And does it make any difference? My memory hogs are Chromium > > and Firefox, the rest is ok. > You should run Debian stable for daily use. If performance is your main > concern, try one of the light desktop environments (Xfce, LXDE, > LXQT...). I like the simplicity of LXQT, although I have recently fallen > in love with Cutefish (not yet in Debian). > > Regards, > Christian > > -- > http://www.cb-fraggle.de > >
