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Originally Posted by Andy-1
However working freelance around England, Europe, Scandinavia and China a laptop became essential to demonstrate my designs and inventions so I bought a new HP G60 3GiB Win-Vista laptop which was capable of running 3D CAD SolidWorks and headed over to China and Scandinavia – great. 
Later I began to hate the HP because Win-Vista Home Premium plus AntiVirus was bringing it to a standstill and then it was announced that Vista was at EOL – RIH: Rest in Hell…  |
I had Win Vista when I bought my first Dell laptop. It has a Core2Duo 1.66 GHz and 2 GB DDR2.
2 GB is somewhat enough to run Win Vista + other everyday software.
From what I understand, part of the reason people hated Win Vista was that they switched from Win XP to Win Vista and they still had 512 MB or 1 GB.
For me, since I ran VC++ 6, it was not a problem. Using ancient software on a modern machine is great! Visual Studio 6 is from 1998.
The only problem was running Ghostbusters. That game required 2 GB RAM and also did a lot of blending, lots of particle effects and the beams.
I thought that CAD software, specially 3D CAD with lots of details tend to use a lot of RAM.
I run Kubuntu. I did some programming using Qt Creator on a PC with 4 GB of RAM. When it reached 2.8 GB, the system would slow down a lot. In 15 min, the mouse and the entire GUI would lock up.
That was 2 years ago and I was running Kubuntu 18.04.
Kubuntu 22.04 doesn’t have that problem of locking up.
In any case, the more RAM you have the better. That way, Linux can cache things in RAM.
The first time I open LibreOffice, it is slow. I use normal HDD drives.
The second, it is much faster.
Same for Steam. The first time I open it, it take 50 s. After that, opening it, I think it take 30 s.
Firefox seems to be very RAM hungry. Under Linux, it shows that it uses 2 GB but I think, this is a fake number. In reality, it probably uses 6 GB.
I have 24 GB of RAM.
It is useful for running VM and Cyberpunk 2077.
