A dev friend wants to start taking steps away from Windows, starting with their old laptop.
The laptop has 4 GB ram, and an 8th gen i3 CPU, and they mostly will use it to program.
Some have recommended them Lubuntu. Would that be a good choice?
Thanks!
Edit: yeaaah. Definitely away from Windows, not Linux. Time for lunch.
Which language are they going to use? Because for some languages (thinking of Java or Node) they definitely would want more than 4GB of RAM. And I’m not even speaking of IDEs that tend to store data in RAM for their suggestion features.
On that note, if the RAM isn’t soldered to the motherboard, I would strongly advice to upgrade the capacity.