How do you handle multitasking? Do you shut down what you're doing and then switch to something else? I feel this creates a lot of friction. It could be good in a way b/c you don't get easily distracted :)
I remember in earlier KDE5 version you could suspend activities (in the KDE world this is sorta similar to a desktop - or a group of running applications). This would free up a lot of resources and could mean you can have a lot of applications "open" at once, but they're all in a frozen state. At some point this features was removed. I'm guessing it didn't play nice with a lot of applications. But I haven't been able to find anything equivalent.
You can sorta accomplish something similar by going into the task managed and suspending a task, but it's not ergonomic. Maybe someone has a good alternative?
My multitasking on such machine was limited to a few terminals, Chromium and other utilities. With the terminals, I had one with nano, another ocasionally compiling code and another with mutt; when compiling code, the system slowed down but I could still use nano. Chromium stayed with a few tabs open for querying stack overflow, google or wikipedia and when not using it its tabs were soon swapped out, so switching back to chromium and switching tabs took a few seconds after compiling something. With regard to other utilities, it was mostly hexchat for IRC and xmms for playing mp3. Not much, but I didn't need much more than that. Raspbian is a reasonably quick distro.
For entertainment it was good enough for old games and h264 1080p movies.
I remember in earlier KDE5 version you could suspend activities (in the KDE world this is sorta similar to a desktop - or a group of running applications). This would free up a lot of resources and could mean you can have a lot of applications "open" at once, but they're all in a frozen state. At some point this features was removed. I'm guessing it didn't play nice with a lot of applications. But I haven't been able to find anything equivalent.
You can sorta accomplish something similar by going into the task managed and suspending a task, but it's not ergonomic. Maybe someone has a good alternative?