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Ubuntu Linux raises minimum system memory requirements by 50% — requirements bumped to 6GB of RAM, previously raised from 1GB to 4GB in 2018 (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 21 points 6 months ago (12 children)

Wow, it needs more RAM than Windows!

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-11-specifications

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  • [–] 44 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Wow those min specs are pure bullshit. Sure you can run the OS - oh, did you want to do anything else with your PC? Good luck

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Funny enough, I installed Win11 on a friend's HP convertible laptop today.

    A 2GHz i3 and 4GB RAM, and it was still entirely usable. Not powerful by any means, but a fine socials browser, YouTube viewer, and document writer.

    I'd have preferred to put Debian on it, but it wasn't my call, so I did as requested.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    A 2GHz i3

    Strangely, that really does not narrow down which processor it is to me.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Cheap shit from 2014.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    I just put mint on the same laptop from 2014 that you're talking about. My intent is to use it as something with more real estate than a phone when lounging around. Replaced battery, fan, and replaced spinning rust with a spare SSD. Last week upgraded the ram to 16gb ($40ish on Amazon for ddr3l!!). Only reason I upgraded it was because Firefox would occasionally stutter on scrolling.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    OK, but oppose to Windows, you can run Ubuntu 24 until 2029. I don't think many will use a 4 GB notebook (as a notebook and not as a Debian server) beyond that time.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Last time i checked they still sell a RPi with less than 4GB of ram.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Ubuntu (at least the default wm) runs like shit on rpi. I use Ubuntu everywhere but for small machines I typically find something specific for it.

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