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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 throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

But that's not honest.

Ubuntu's default browser, and other apps, are snap-based. They take significantly more resourced than their Debian counterparts.

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[–] 20dogs@feddit.uk 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

They don't take significantly more RAM

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[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago

If a snap is bundled with it's own dependencies (the point of snap), those dependency libraries are not loaded into shared memory. Multiple apps that would typically share a loaded dependency must now each load them into RAM.

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