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2G of RAM should be enough (i know, i had it). IMO it's better to pick 32bit version instead of 64bit if you're low on RAM -- it uses about 30 percent less RAM with the same performance (unless you encode/decode stuff for a living).
Last edited by Captain Pinkeye; 11-28-2015 at 03:18 AM.
Reason: not a typo, obviously LQ can't handle the percent sign
The only Mint that gave me good performance with less than 2GB RAM was the LXDE spin some time back. But there is always peppermint, I suppose (haven't tried that distro for longer than the last Mint I ran).
Just installed MX-15-b2_x64 on the old Lenovo G-560 with 8GB RAM and it's even better than antiX 8.5 was, IMHO. After installing a few dependencies and Google Chrome Beta, Netfilx is up and running better than ever!
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