See some people's specs posted and can't help shake head. Some degree of jealousy at play surely but still shake head. Can't personally ever see need for more than 4-6gigs or a quad-core. With the way I config my os and tuning, plus some degree of browser tweaking and noscript could have 80tabs open, still be streaming a reasonable resolution vid and not top out my measily 4gigs, touch swap or melt the poor 2.17ghz dualcore on this antique laptop. So what are you people doing and why?

Just been considering the excess systems tend to have nowadays and wanted to kick this around and get yall's input. Also some poor guy in the Linux mint community was noting he'd just just bought a system 76 darter pro, turned around and upgraded the thing with 32gbs ddr4 and a smoking flash drive, at least a 10th gen i5 or i7 quad. Poor dude went to install latest Mint on this monster and is getting 2min boot time on it. Ouch! From an oem which part of their claim to fame and no doubt somewhat higher pricetag is being gnu/nix friendly. Me, 10yr old Inspiron 1545, 4gigs, dual-core, 7200rpm rust hdd and cold boots to working desktop in 40s. Still never really come close to topping out even this old thing. So what's the deal people? What's your deal I say?!?