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That IS my daily driver. A quad-core i5, but I can't imagine a dual core struggling that much. 4GB of ram is fine for any linux distro itself but might not be g
by O_H_E 7y ago
That IS my daily driver. A quad-core i5, but I can't imagine a dual core struggling that much. 4GB of ram is fine for any linux distro itself but might not be good enough for a browser-centeric workflow. I get around that by using extensions like Tab-Discard or TheGreatSuspender to "pause" unused tabs.
Using a userland oom-killer does help a lot with deadlock situations (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22833471 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22833471)
I wouldn't still recommend Gnome (Default Ubuntu), any other desktop would be lighter on RAM and CPU. KDE, MATE, or Budgie are all great.
I do have a speedy SSD though, when I was on my HDD the pill was quite harder to swallow.
- qchris 7y agoThis has been my experience as well. I do a lot of work on a computer running 18.04 with an i5-5300U (2 core, 4 thread), and the change between having an SSD instead of an HDD was probably the single largest performance improvement I've had because of a component change.