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For some odd reason I will ask did you check your scaling governor?
Whoa nelly! I have old i5 and had 8gb, now 16.
I use gentoo across many of my devices, even on ARM SBCs, but it's notwhat everyone would like. For SBCs I compile binary packages with my configs.
Do laptop and pc have same processor?
Also what is your GPU?
My apologies, it's only 4gb ram and I did overestimated the age as well. It's i7-2630m processor, video is nvidia gt 540m.
Based on another commenter's advice I installed openSuse tumbleweed and it is quite snappy and I like it, but I've noticed that working terminal is different and since I'm transitioning from Windows and learning Linux I don't want to learn two sets of commands. Decisions, decisions...
I have sandybridge too)
Maybe it will be useful to read on nouveau reclocking
Yes, good stuff. I used it, worked well.
Across POSIX-compatible systems commands are same, except system-specific like packet manager
In that case I'll most likely stick with opensuse on the laptop.