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Small Distro Concerns
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It's going to go poorly and probably break. That said, I don't enjoy these "lite distros" because as soon as you load YouTube in a browser, your system specs are cooked.
Point taken!
I don't think the lite distros are to blame for performance drops in that case, are they? Unless it's down to a lack of system optimisation.
No, they aren't to blame, but it makes "light" distros pointless.
Not really - there's plenty of use cases where running memory intensive stuff like that isn't an issue and running a small footprint distro makes more sense than, say, a maximalist, fully featured desktop distro.
I'm not trying to run a media centre or play games on my 11 year old MacBook!