@cowanon @Humpleupagus @dick @WilhelmIII @briar @tyler > I've also heard you can load your OS into RAM somehow but I don't know how to do that

I’m honestly surprised this hasn’t become more common. I’ve been running Puppylinux on a variety of systems since like 2006 or so, and Tails somewhat more recently, and they both run like bats out of hell on whatever hardware. There are some compatibility issues that take a bit of work, but 99/100 times someone else in forums has already done the heavy lifting to hammer it out.