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Seriously, Don't Buy a Windows 11 PC With 8GB of RAM (www.pcmag.com)
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[–] dreamkeeper@literature.cafe 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Debian with LXQT only requires 512MB of RAM, though they recommend 2GB, which your table shows. My Linux machine has 8GB though. I'm not sure how it would run in practice. It's probably just fine for light usage. My system never even comes close to using 8GB but it's mostly just a media server.