They refused to upgrade my work pc
So Im just gonna go slow as fuck

What kind of specs do you have?

@electrineer

4GB RAM

500 GB HDD

i5 2nd Gen

2.40 GHz processor

this shit is slow

@notroot

Thats the WHOLE!!!.....fucking...... POINT!!!!

We can squeeze some power out of it with going Linux, and upgrading to high amount of ZRAM and only after that going for swap :)
Ram looks like main issue here

@Taqsblaz3 ouch

@darkwind and HDD

@Taqsblaz3 4gb HAHA

Were you going fast before this? With the sane machine? If so, you are on weak ground. If you were slow already, then no change.

I’m not feeling good about your negotiation strategy here.

ouch

@darkwind he'd be needing to go full CLI mode to salvage that setup

my personal laptop has similar specs - I think - and that thing's slooow even after going linux

@Taqsblaz3 The biggest upgrade will be the HDD to SSD. Then after that upgrade the RAM. Or just replace it with a decent machine.

@arcadesdude I'd say the RAM update is more important. That way the system at least keeps running properly, even if all loading times are still slow.

@electrineer you could test it to find out which one would be a bigger performance boost. I mean since win 10 version 1809 windows really wrecks the HDD when updating. But if you mean Linux then the RAM upgrade would be better because Linux doesn't wreck the disk as much as Windows does in general for regular users...but for devs and IT it may be a different story.