*installing linux on my mini laptop*
- Dad: "you should make a backup image of windows 10"
- Me: "LOL NOPE!"

(With 2gb of ram, linux makes it the perfect lightweight coding machine. But with W10? Jesus christ)

Welcome to linux club xD

everything is fine with win10 on 2gb machines.

@MaxDeepfield have to disagree :( On idle, windows 10 consumes 1.3gb of ram already. It's unoperable, even when you don't add up the constant notifications/update requests

@honeyBadgerJeff Agree, on Windows 64 bit -> consume about 1gb of ram as fresh install or fresh boot.
In my experience -> at Windows 32 bit, consume about 300 mb of ram as fresh install or fresh boot. (but it still slow like ass..)(That's why I switched to Arch Linux) (Noticable faster and never look back)

What distro did u install.I recommend using a lightweight desktop environment or openbox or even i3.even on a low specced laptop you can get alot of speed out of linux .

@zmzmuazzam98 using MATE for a bit of sexiness. I use like one tab on qupzilla and atom ~1.2gb ram ;) sometimes I use i3 if I have more workload.