Having got LMDE installed on our woefully underpowered EeePC, it became apparent that the machine wasn’t going to be very useful. Except for pandering to our sense of nostalgia. According to Systemd-analyze, it took a minute to boot (as far as the login screen), a far cry from the sub-20s boot times we’ve come to expect. Initial memory usage (as gauged by the free -h command) was 500MB or so. Following the welcome screen’s recommendations, we let it chug through a handful of updates.
The simple act of starting brought the machine to its knees and even our beloved took ages to render. And then began the swapping. Our install set up a 1GB swap partition (which is used as memory when actual memory runs low). This made the machine not at all fun to do anything
