update-manager --no-focus-on-map ??

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 02 Jan 2016 02:33:38 +1100, Karl Auer wrote:
>video processing

Rendering videos indeed requires much RAM, but video isn't a Linux
domain.

>sound processing

Even professional audio processing does _not_ require that much RAM, at
least not more than the mentioned 8GB.

A good reason to suggest an Ubuntu flavor, http://ubuntustudio.org/:).