I am using a 4GB RAM HP Probook for the last 5 years (Student Artifact). You have to be very disciplined to use it though. I never open more than 10 tabs on the

I am using a 4GB RAM HP Probook for the last 5 years (Student Artifact). You have to be very disciplined to use it though. I never open more than 10 tabs on the browser. While programming and testing, I generally close the browser. Use only lightweight WM. Avoid using JS based UI. My stack is vim/emacs (sorry) + a compiler (clang/rustc/sbcl) or perl/python + zsh/bash (userspace) + a terminal emulator + occasional firefox + wget/curl and weechat I read pdfs with emacs. My computer's pretty fast wrt my peer's higher spec machine (16GB) with VS Code, Slack, Chrome and whatnot.. But he does play games better!