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You’ll need at least 6GB of RAM to run Ubuntu 26.04 LTS comfortably, as the upcoming version of the distro raises its minimum memory requirement for the first time since 2019.

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[–] PetteriPano@lemmy.world 15 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

I have an idea of how they could reduce the fish requirements.

How about using shared libraries instead of bundling everything in every snap all the times?

Amazingly it reduces RAM usage as well.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 14 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

What is a reasonable number of fish though?

[–] PetteriPano@lemmy.world 1 points 34 minutes ago
[–] Lawnman23@piefed.social 21 points 3 hours ago
[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

You mean you don't like having three screens worth of saquashfs entries flash past when you try to run mount?