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minus-squareAppoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·1 day agoI was kind of humbled to see how much less ressources Debian was using. It needed one GB of memory after install in full memory. Meanwhile Canonical https://www.techpowerup.com/347967/ubuntu-26-04-lts-raises-recommended-memory-requirement-to-6-gb?cp=2
minus-squarecybernihongo@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 hours agoI run Debian on 6GBs. Before that, Windows 10 was close to unusable, but in all fairness I had it on an HDD while Debian is running off a by now two years old SSD.
minus-squareDie4Ever@retrolemmy.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-221 hours agoWhile Ubuntu recommends 6GB, it still uses much less than that even if you open Chrome lol If you enable zswap, you could probably live with 4GB
I was kind of humbled to see how much less ressources Debian was using.
It needed one GB of memory after install in full memory.
Meanwhile Canonical
https://www.techpowerup.com/347967/ubuntu-26-04-lts-raises-recommended-memory-requirement-to-6-gb?cp=2
I run Debian on 6GBs. Before that, Windows 10 was close to unusable, but in all fairness I had it on an HDD while Debian is running off a by now two years old SSD.
While Ubuntu recommends 6GB, it still uses much less than that even if you open Chrome lol
If you enable zswap, you could probably live with 4GB