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Rejoice! You have transcended the shackles of android. It's grandma's time to shine. My experience on getting my linux systems around 500mb on idle is going to pay off finally. But to give your pc a better chance, if you can upgrade the ram to even 4 or 8 gb, it would make a world of difference. Used laptop ram sticks should be okay. You might even find an additional ram slot on your laptop, so adding in more ram should mean you don't have to replace the existing 2gig stick. If you still end up having only 2gigs, don't worry, cozy up and let's begin our adventure! Disclaimer: this was written for a friend who got a cheap laptop. All of these are anecdotes, so I will try to dogfood what I suggest in a vm for some daily things and write an update. It might not be the case that terminal apps are better for ram usage. Memory management might have also gotten a lot better, so I might be repeating dogma. the osI don't know by what miracle windows runs on that thing, but I would highly…

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