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Ubuntu Linux raises minimum system memory requirements by 50% — requirements bumped to 6GB of RAM, previously raised from 1GB to 4GB in 2018 (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

A lot (most) of it depends on the desktop environment you use. If you look for idle RAM usage compared by desktop environment you will see how drastic it is.

This kinda thing https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/linux-des-resource-usage-compared/70060

[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago

It's not that linear. Some background services will cache more things in RAM if memory usage is low and release it if total usage goes above a threshold, for example.