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As much as people would like to give advice..
With that said, it would help to know what OS you're running or planning to run, and post your question under a relevant operating system community.
I know it's not for support but I just wanted to post quickly here. Well, I use Windows 10
"I know I shouldn't but I want to."
Um...?
Eh.. I think this can stay... its more like a "How does someone make their laptop faster?" type of question... and the details are just one example... I think the ban on "How do I" questions is primarily to make threads more relevent to everyone.. and I think advice here can be useful to everyone.
You can't make a thread like this relevant to everyone, each operating system works differently.
Windows 10, you gotta cut out the bloatware and telemetry, and still probably install more RAM anyways.
Linux, you take advantage of fstab to arrange a tmpfs or ramfs filesystem for temporary files, internet cache, and even system log files if you really wanna cut down on unnecessary storage write cycles.
There's no universal one size fits all answer here, it all depends on the operating system, especially these days..