IN THIS ECONOMY????

Please everyone read or at least skim articles before posting. The article literally says, that it's "an honest bump" to allow typical usage like web browsing and multitasking.

Ubuntu experts at OMG Ubuntu characterize the latest revision in RAM specs as “an honesty bump.” In other words, the core OS isn’t really more demanding on system resources this time around, but Canonical recognizes that with the latest Gnome desktop, modern web browsers, and typical multitasking workflows, users should look at a minimum of 6GB of RAM.

They’re raising it because of RAM needs of browsers and GNOME.

If you’re a shell nerd like me, you’ll still be fine running it on a potato.

Great move in these times where RAM is cheap and widely available

I don't immediately hate it. It's been a while since any laptops/prebuilds shipped with less than 8 GB, and there's distros out there far better suited to running on low power or legacy hardware.

In this economy?

So basically the system requirements of Chrome.

"HERE'S A NICKLE, KID. GET YOURSELF A BETTER COMPUTER."

Just use Debian

Wow, it needs more RAM than Windows!

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

That's pretty much what a browser needs these days.

Me with 16 GB on my computer

(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

Fun thing, I just booted up an old computer. Started right up. It had Ubuntu 11.10 on it.

Now, I obviously didn't connect the thing to the Internet. Updates would have probably failed hard. Not because it's missing over a decade of updates so there might be some complications on that front, but because it's a Pentium III with Definitely Not Even a Gigabyte of memory. (Oh and a Nvidia GeForce 2 MX. I'm pretty sure that's not supported by... any driver any more.)

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.

Use Debian if you want a system like Ubuntu that isn't full of Canonical's corporate shit. Ubuntu is based on Debian.

Shocked i got this far without someone blaming snaps

When I built my current rig a few years back (when I still used Windows and Photoshop), I said, "RAM is cheap enough, and more is better, but don't go overboard."

That's how I ended up with 64GB of RAM.

2026. Everything is a framework under a framework running on a pseudo virtual machine. 6 GB are just for the notepad and the mouse driver.

Meanwhile on my raspberrypi 4 running Ubuntu server:

And my tablet running stock Ubuntu:

I'm ok with this - lubuntu has my back.

8GB was barely enough 10 years ago. That's when I switched to Arch+KDE. Then KDE started using more. memory.