I 100% agree. I’m still relatively new but this helped me become much more confident.

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Just a suggestion if you haven’t already try opening up the laptop and cleaning out the dust with compressed air. I have been given laptops before because they were “old and slow” and I just needed to clean out the dust and they all of a sudden became so much faster.

Although I know this doesn’t help with the 8gb problem but maybe if you don’t need 16gb right now you could keep that laptop and upgrade to another when you need 16gb.

I’m sorry for having this posted like 50 times there was a network error and I thought it wasn’t posting.

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That’s an awesome story. If all your doing is browsing the Web or using applications that can easily and stably run on linux or have drop in replacements then linux would definitely be totally viable. On the other hand if you need to install specific proprietary applications and you have to rely on wine then maybe not.