Last Updated on April 16, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org
Hi,
Running Manjaro XFCE 23.02 and kernel 6.2.5 on a Zero with 4GB of RAM and 32GB emmc, as daily driver for several montsh now, with no serious issues.
Pacman an Pamac do a great job keeping the system up to date, upgrading the kernel and other packages. Way easier than Debian apt.
Last kernels with MGLRU feel zippy and allow to open a bunch of applications. The combination of this new virtual memory page management and zram virtual memory compression is great.
MGLRU is probably one of the most impressive technologies added to the kernel recently. I’m testing it also with a 2GB 2014 Intel tablet with Ubuntu with LXQT (optimized with minimum services loaded) and it allows to open quite a few apps with far less disk thrashing than before… :exploding_head:… It’s a blessing for systems with limited memory.
I also enabled fastcommit for ext4 and TRIM and it is working flawlessly.
The zero is very usable as a desktop replacement and Manjaro is very stable.
I use it mainly for browsing, coding quite complex apps and light image retouching with Darktable and Photopea (online photo editor)
It amazes me what you can achive with this tiny computer
https://forum.radxa.com/t/manjaro-23-02-minimal-on-1gb-radxa-zero/15634