Comment by nirui
3 years ago
Not really sure about the cross-platform caveat... `dropbox-lnx` eats away 265MB of RES for it's file syncing job, I'm pretty sure what Dropbox was doing on my old laptop was very heavily 265MBly important. Also, `keepassxc` takes away 180MB of RES when you opened it.
The first Linux that I've used, Mandriva (KDE), runs smoothly on my Intel Pentium 4 PC with 256MB of RAM. I can even do some web browsing (Flash gaming) and music playing without feeling slow. That's an entire OS, running on 256MB of RAM.
Use rclone instead of dropbox.
On MDV, KDE and PIV, same here with an Athlon 2000 and 256 MB of RAM with Knoppix and later FreesBIE with XFCE, which ran much faster and snappier than even today's i7's with Plasma 5.