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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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[–] 206 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Please everyone read or at least skim articles before posting. The article literally says, that it's "an honest bump" to allow typical usage like web browsing and multitasking.

Ubuntu experts at OMG Ubuntu characterize the latest revision in RAM specs as “an honesty bump.” In other words, the core OS isn’t really more demanding on system resources this time around, but Canonical recognizes that with the latest Gnome desktop, modern web browsers, and typical multitasking workflows, users should look at a minimum of 6GB of RAM.

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  • [–] 28 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    But that requires actually READING 😖 /j

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Web browsing is the real murder here.. and i dont want to know how much memory is solely spent on ads

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago

    The week after GDPR went into effect was amazing. Almost nobody was ready, so they just turned off all their ads and tracking for European IPs while they figured it out. Pages loaded pretty much instantly.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    None if you use a good adblocker, like you should be doing.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    I thought ad blockers just blocked ads from showing, not that they stopped them from being downloaded...

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    No, if it's a good blocker it's blocking all requests and connections to wherever the ads are being served from. There's usually ALSO a level of cosmetic filtering for things that get past the blocklist or can't be properly filtered because they're coming from the same server as stuff you actually want to see, but with ublock origin set to strict and noscript set to allow only whitelisted sites, my page load times are way faster. Sometimes a shitty webpage will still 'wait around' for a second to try and get a connection from an ad site but it's not loading anything into memory.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago

    I'm concerned about in-system bloat because I read the linked article.

    Rather, it’s more of an honesty bump. Components that make up the distro – the GNOME desktop and extensions, modern web browsers (and the sites we load in them) and the kinds of apps we use (and keep running) whilst multitasking are more demanding.

    The desktop itself isn't the only reason that you need more RAM, but it's definitely one of them.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    But that's not honest.

    Ubuntu's default browser, and other apps, are snap-based. They take significantly more resourced than their Debian counterparts.

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