i manage fine with chromium running at around 1024x800 and underneath that firefox with 200 tabs open ar around 1024x700 or so (i use a 3000 x 1600 resolution laptop screen). Your main concern is web browsers, which is one application, and you should try to keep the size of the window to the minimum that you can tolerate. don't do it :) keep an eye on things, but libreoffice and a few tabs open in browsers should be fine. this tends to bring even a machine with 16GB of 2400mhz DDR4 RAM to its knees. The actual OS doesn't techincally matter, none of them will make a blind bit of difference, you have such a fast machine, you might as well pick one that will make your life easiee.Īll apps will work perfectly fine as long as you don't do what i do which is try to run qemu, two web browsers, 3D Graphics Editors, videos, IRC, 2D CAD Packages *and* try to compile the linux kernel all at the same time.

you want an S3500 or basically hunt around for anything that has 'Intel Power-loss Protection'. not the 3700 series which is made *by* intel but using a shitty consumer-grade controller IC from Marvell. by that i mean one with an Intel chipset i.e. the only thing that will make a HUGE difference to speed is if you get yourself a GOOD SSD. it's only the fact that modern OSes are so stuffed with eye candy, adware and freeware that you've been hood-winked into BELIEVING that the OS *is* the computer. 2.4ghz with 5GB of RAM is insanely quick, and an insane amount of RAM.

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