On Tuesday, October 13, 2020 6:52:05 PM CEST Jude DaShiell wrote: > Let's see if this is a correct bottom post. I've never seen anything in > this life. Eyes never developed enough for me to see. > The desktop profile emerge failed, and no more has been done with the old > machine yet. I could change to basic profile then emerge @world then > emerge the basic profile @world then emerge --depclean to clear the > unnecessary desktop packages from the machine. If I'm not mistaken, the > new machine has 8 cores on it but all the ssd disks I have for it are > 120MB disks so that might be a bit small for gentoo. I'll read through > the hardware requirements again and make sure.
I really hope you mistyped and meant those SSDs are 120GB (Gigabyte, instead of Megabyte) 120GB is enough. I have an older laptop with that and it runs KDE/Plasma just fine and even manages some games from steam. Most important is the memory requirement. 2GB Ram can be made to work, but if you want a desktop, you need to forget about the likes of KDE and Gnome and go with something that needs less memory. I have no idea how well they support accessibility tools like speakup though. Hope someone else with more knowledge about this can add their input. Kind regards, Joost
