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Someone had asked in an earlier video about installing an older version of SUSE on older hardware. Well i found that Tumbleweed works just fine (until they nuke 32bit support). So here is a video of me installing Opensuse Tumbleweed 20190121 on a Dell Inspiron 8600 with a Pentium M 2ghz, Radeon 9600, 2GB ram and who knows the drive's size or age anymore.

Opensuse and linux in general will run on pretty much a wide range of hardware, now a days it is what software and workload you are going to do that delegates what your system specs are, not the OS.

Example Opensuse and XFCE up and running will use around 500-1.3GB from a fresh install (some of that is Cacheing.) Yet as soon as you load Firefox/Chrome/Chromium/Opera/Vivaldi/Midori/etc and you start browsing the web, those web pages will load into memory and use both ram, i/o and cpu resources. Web pages can be more demanding than the Operating systems.

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