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| I've used linux almost exclusively since around 2009. I bought a refurbished laptop off Amazon a year or two ago for ~250 and installed Ubuntu on it. It was a Dell laptop, came with 4gb of RAM and a 128GB SSD, Core i5 processor. I upgraded to 16gb of RAM - I think 4-8gb is fine for most people, (I was running into OOM problems that was related to a specific program, but I definitely appreciate having the extra RAM anyway) and put in a larger SSD I had laying around. I'm very happy with the set-up.
I think modern versions of mainstream linux distributions will run as intended on pretty much any computer designed for Windows 7 or newer. 4gb of RAM would be fine for average use (web browsing and email and the like), how much storage you need depends a lot on what you do, I typically make a 20-30gb partition to install the OS in and then have a seperate data partition (makes it easier to reinstall the OS or install a different one without moving any data around) and that's always been God's plenty to hold the operating system and the applications I use.
Edited by ktululives 11/24/2020 17:28
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Used laptop to run Linux -- What am I looking for?
