Got old x86 10.1’’ tablet for free, with one “small” caveat - 1 Gb of DDR3 RAM and 16 Gb of internal storage. It had Win 10 Home from factory, version from 2018 - which was able to squeeze into 600-700 Mb of RAM, leaving 300 to user.
Well, Antix works kinda decent, consuming 200 Mb when idle. MX Linux (xfce version) looks good but eats the same 700 Mb…
But the real depths of pain were making touchscreen work… spent 8 hours just on that and failed miserably. Tomorrow will go for a cheap android tablet…
The only thing it needs to provide - working flowkey app.
Touchscreen is a DE input function. Try KDE or Gnome, or just give up.
It’s easy to make it look like it could work. As for gnome/kde, with 1 Gb RAM that’s not an option
I dont know about Gnome, but kde plasma “should” run and be usable with 1GB ram. At least ive seen some posts about people doing it. I think at minimum you would need so customize your ram related kernel parameters like swappiness, the watermark scale factor (kernel memory threshold for caching) and stuff like that. But i cant say ive ever run such a small system with a DE.
Well then you won’t have touch input. Resource limitations are a thing.