I currently have no opportunity to upgrade my laptop, but I need to perform resource-intensive tasks on it. The real bottlenecks are the CPU (Ryzen 3250U 2,6GHz) and the RAM (8GB DDR4). The core problem is the RAM amount. 8GB is nothing, and 2,3 of it is statically reserved by the integrated GPU, while GPU does not actually matter for my needs, so I have only 5,7GB available no matter what. I also think that the CPU is actual junk. But as I said, cannot upgrade rn, but need some performance.

Sooo, how do I actually reduce the RAM amount reserved by the GPU? I have no such option in BIOS.

Also, does Windows 10/11 choice matter, considering that I will use a solid debloating script? UPDATE: I can not use Linux. Even though I want to. The programs I need have no Linux alternatives and are very tricky under wine.

Any other advice on optimizing the existing hardware and Windows are welcome.

  • @OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
    2•22 hours ago

    Yeah … Linux would be your friend here.

    My laptop is a shitty old chromebook from 2016 that was low-spec even at that time. 2-core CPU, 4GB total RAM, 14GB total storage(!). But I’ve got a chromebook-specific Linux distro on it, and it works great even in 2026, does everything I need it to, and never even feels slow or laggy. (Also has astounding battery life as well, oddly enough. ~17 hours, with the original 2016 battery.)

    I don’t know what ‘resource-intensive tasks’ you need to do, but if you want to free up hardware on an old, low-spec machine, Linux is your best and only friend.