My multitasking on such machine was limited to a few terminals, Chromium and other utilities. With the terminals, I had one with nano, another ocasionally compi

My multitasking on such machine was limited to a few terminals, Chromium and other utilities. With the terminals, I had one with nano, another ocasionally compiling code and another with mutt; when compiling code, the system slowed down but I could still use nano. Chromium stayed with a few tabs open for querying stack overflow, google or wikipedia and when not using it its tabs were soon swapped out, so switching back to chromium and switching tabs took a few seconds after compiling something. With regard to other utilities, it was mostly hexchat for IRC and xmms for playing mp3. Not much, but I didn't need much more than that. Raspbian is a reasonably quick distro. For entertainment it was good enough for old games and h264 1080p movies.