[httpsterio]

I got the same laptop back in 2016 from a friend and I can't say that I agree. It's unbearably slow. I ran Ubuntu and a CLI most of the time with a browser and that was the absolute max you could do with it before locking totally up.

A decade is a really long time for a laptop of you plan on run anything modern on it. I assume you'll have to because id you're developing with older Java versions and SDKs you're just leaving youeswlf open for a world of hurt.

[potamic]

Stock Ubuntu desktop is pretty resource intensive with a lot of graphical effects that will struggle on older machines. There are plenty of lightweight distros out there that cut down such bloat and run easily with 4G of memory.

[zealsham]

This is my current machine and I run mint on it . It’s unbearably slow and would reboot if you do cpu intensive task like running chrome , burp suite and something else