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I would say fresh install is the way to go for personal laptop or workstations. There is another way to upgrade your OS without fresh install or apt upgrade and that is to replace entire file system but that is mostly exclusively used in data centers for very very specific use cases. Although...

Running two sticks of half the capacity is better than one stick of full capacity in terms of performance but you can also go with the route of buying one right now and second one later. Also do check for other stores like primeabgb, vedant, elitehub for prices. Amazon and Flipkart are generally...

I would like to put a caution out there against using Wubuntu and also for LinuxFX. Wubuntu is based on top of LinuxFX, I would even go as far as to say they just rebranded LinuxFX to make use of Ubuntu popularity. Developer of Wubuntu and LinuxFX have been called out for serious security...

My advice would be look for refurbished or used piece of hardware. You can get upto double the performance for same price. You can find cheap used ram and mobo + cpu combo but you will need to spend fair amount of time in researching that.

I was a CS student myself so I can say almost everything can be done on desktop that pertains to your course but if you want to do anything else like clubs or group projects then convenience of laptop comes in to play. I would say with confidence that you will need laptop by end of second year.