From maybe 2015 to 2017 I used an i3 (I forget the clockspeed) dual core processor with 4 gigs of ram daily working as a web developer. It wasn't even on an ssd

From maybe 2015 to 2017 I used an i3 (I forget the clockspeed) dual core processor with 4 gigs of ram daily working as a web developer. It wasn't even on an ssd. It depends on the type of work but for what I was doing it was fast enough. Granted I was using Mint with the Cinnamon desktop but i'm sure Gnome with Ubuntu would have been fine too. I installed Windows 10 on it for a few days to try it out and the difference was night and day. The laptop would pause for about a second every maybe 15 seconds or so, which wasn't a thing on Linux.