T156 comments on Ubuntu Linux raises minimum system memory requirements by 50% — requirements bumped to 6GB of RAM, previously raised from 1GB to 4GB in 2018

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[–] T156@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago (10 children)

This doesn't seem so bad, though. 2 GB more in about 10 years is pretty reasonable in terms of an increase.

It's not like they doubled it.

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[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 6 months ago (5 children)

no it is not reasonable. What the hell do they need an extra 2gb for? What the hell is the operating system taking up that much resources for?

My first pc needed 4MiB of ram for the os. Why does this need 1536x as much to provide.... not much else tbh?

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[–] jungfred@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Ubuntu is the Windows of Linux.

It's getting more and more bloated with unnecessary and unwanted things, because of canonicals bad management decisions. They seemingly care more about "business" rather than users.

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[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

I’m not a fan, but thats extreme. The Ubuntu desktop will boot to the DE on half a gig of ram, and can open basic desktop apps with 1 or 2. Its the websites, containered apps, and more complex applications that Ubuntu is worried about UX disappointment from naive users (which is their segment). Windows 11 requires many times that just to get to a desktop and open a text file in notepad. They are not the same.