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I have a very similar spec Asus Eee PC that I use NetBSD with i3 on and it's fine for like taking notes in vim or listening to music with strawberry. It can also run Haiku fine which I might switch to on it at some point because Haiku is fun. Anyway my best use idea is just use it to explore operating systems you're curious about