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You know what doesnt need 32gb? Linux.
Mint cinnamon runs fast as hell on my xps 13 with an 1135g7 and 8gb. Like faster than my Flow z13 395+ with 64gb. It's a serious software issue.
i havent used computer with less than 32Gb in a decade
Pretty privileged
Yeah seriously, why is this even a discussion. 32GB is the bare minimum acceptable these days, regardless of which desktop OS you're using.
All three of my PCs running Linux have 16GB in them. Never run out of RAM.
So you're saying that upgrading my tower to 128 GB was overkill? I suppose I could sell one of the ram sets now for probably double what I paid for all 4 sticks in 2023
Up to you, but unless you're doing something that needs 128GB, 64GB is already overkill.
I guess I’ve been living in lala land or something because I’ve been perfectly happy with half of that.
Well what games do you play?
I play games at 4k and I have yet to come across one where 32 gigs wasn’t more than enough. Even more computer heavy games like Satisfactory.
Edit: I realize I should have specified that my 16 gig machines are not gaming machines.
People run Linux with full plasma desktop with like 8 gb ram. It's the browser that eats up several gb from that, not the desktop. Desktop alone is probably 4 gb max.
But sure, depending on what else you run, you want more memory. But if windows recommends 32 gb just to run the system, that's crazy.
And even with 4GB Linux itself is not the problem. It's the apps. So many Electron apps that use so much memory because they're running in Chromium instances.