this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2026
519 points (97.3% liked)
Technology
83406 readers
4025 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
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.
i'm not even recommending 8gb laptops to most users anymore.. especially not ones with soldered ram that are stuck with only that.
Yeah my old ass laptop as 16GB so this is a non issue.
My older-ass laptop has 2GB, so it's kind of an issue for me.
(But I never attempted to put Ubuntu on that in the first place. It's running a much older, purpose-built version of Linux.)