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[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

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