To the people running Debian/Ubuntu: Do you think a Dualcore 3,6Ghz CPU will do fine?

I have a 4 year old laptop running 16.04 with a dinky core 2 duo @1.5 GHz per core, its my daily driver too (of course I use Ubuntu Studio, but I run stock from an ext. drive just fine) if that helps.

Depends on what you will do. Is it just light web dev or do you need to run any VMs or app emulators? If for basic coding you should be ok to start, but if you're doing more that that you might need beefier specs such as a CPU that supports virtualization and decent RAM or an SSD.

@binarydigit Shit im sorry, i accitendly reportet your comment. :( Dont hate me please...
I want to use it for C developing. So compiler + vim.

I'd say Ubuntu shouldn't be worse than Win. If you are not compiling huge projects all the time then it sounds fine. An SSD, decent RAM and such is always helpful in making the system feel snappy.

@Elkstorm Of course it is better.

@callmebrownie Why of course?

@vortexman100 not as a statement of being obvious, just meant as a distinction from the assumption by my answer that I'd be running stock Ubuntu. Ubuntu studio has always been a bit more stable for my older laptop, that's all.

@callmebrownie Ah ok. Whats the difference?

There are a handful of differences, the most important is that Studio ships with Xfce as default, a lighter Desktop environment is nice, and a ton more creative software pre-installed There are some changes deep down with a different C runtime used to compile than stock Ubuntu, so I occasionally use a Server to do some builds when needed. Xfce is extended a bit better than Xubuntu too, just overall I've always loved Studio more.

@vortexman100 *sniffles*

:)

@binarydigit :D