This post seems to work well, given that it has remained in the active tab for days now with the sheer people commenting on it.

Emphasis mine. Wow, only 2 GiB…

That’s not as low as you’d think, to be fair. I’ve tried to run Kubuntu on a 10 year old laptop with 2 GiB RAM and it worked, if only a little laggy. That being said, it crashes after half an hour without swap. But with swap, it is legitimately daily drivable (as long as you don’t run heavy apps, of course).

I’d imagine a distro that’s designed to be even more lightweight would be able to handle that.

Just like a certain great philosopher said, “The sun is a deadly laser”