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minus-squareAppoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·3 days 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-squareDie4Ever@retrolemmy.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-23 days 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
minus-squarecybernihongo@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days 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.
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
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
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.