I'm currently on Ubuntu 17.10, I'm honestly pretty disappointed with the performance. I feel like I need a more stripped down OS.
I mainly use the following applications:
Sublime Text / Atom
GIMP
Tor
Chrome (I know I'm a faggot)
- Wikis, Imageboards, email etc
I'd prefer a developer oriented OS as long as I don't have to sacrifice too much of my browsing style.
I've considered things like Qubes OS, but I only have 4gb of RAM and my computer is on the older side.
Try OpenSUSE with KDE.
Good thing it is bloated, but it is quite stable and consumes 430 megs with KDE, or 200 megs with LXQT/LXDE.
SOMETHING I FORGOT
I'd prefer to be able to use the PIA VPN with it
Bloatware?
>Bloatware?
Sure it is. But it doesn't feel slow, unlike Ubuntu with (((Gnome)))
Solus
If the general consensus answer to this question isn't debian then I'm leaving this board
>Linux
Apologize!
Maybe you'd be fine if you just installed and used less bloated DE/WM/applications - whatever causes load and/or memory usage.
Sure, answer is Gentoo, the only distro worth using.
It is "install gentoo". Goodbye, user!