True 😆
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@itsfoss Eerily relevant to me, as I recently put Mint on one 4GB RAM netbook and Ubuntu on another...
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@itsfoss It depends on the type of Ubuntu or Mint. There's the standard Linux Mint, which is just an Ubuntu derivative, and then there's Linux Mint/Debian, which is a direct derivative of Debian. It also depends on which daemons/applications you have installed and are running. Generalisations such as 'Ubuntu always uses more RAM than Mint' don't help anyone. It's the sum of several factors.
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@itsfoss It depends on the type of Ubuntu or Mint. There's the standard Linux Mint, which is just an Ubuntu derivative, and then there's Linux Mint/Debian, which is a direct derivative of Debian. It also depends on which daemons/applications you have installed and are running. Generalisations such as 'Ubuntu always uses more RAM than Mint' don't help anyone. It's the sum of several factors.
@FiolaKais @itsfoss I recently compared Ubuntu "out of the box" and Debian with Gnome "out of the box".
The RAM consumption is the same (around 1.5GB), so we should blame Gnome mainly, not Ubuntu.
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@itsfoss It depends on the type of Ubuntu or Mint. There's the standard Linux Mint, which is just an Ubuntu derivative, and then there's Linux Mint/Debian, which is a direct derivative of Debian. It also depends on which daemons/applications you have installed and are running. Generalisations such as 'Ubuntu always uses more RAM than Mint' don't help anyone. It's the sum of several factors.
The distro barely matters. It's about the desktop environment - GNOME is heavier than Cinnamon.
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Maybe it's Snap?
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The distro barely matters. It's about the desktop environment - GNOME is heavier than Cinnamon.
@potatoes_fall @FiolaKais @itsfoss
Mate is fine.
OK on whatever Linux my 2G Rasberry Pi4b is.
Better than 8G on a Lenovo E460 with win10,I have also Mate on an old Acer laptop with OpenBSD.
Most of my computers & Server run Mint + Mate. Many have alternate desktops for test/recovery/curiosity. A flexibilty missing on Windows since NT 3.15 & N T4.0, though W2KXP/2003/Vista/W7 had far more theme flexibly than disasterous Wi0/11 GUI.
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@clutch_lever @itsfoss
My NT 3.51 Server was a 386 with multiple extended RAM cards for 6M total.My 1st computer 40 column screen 48K 6502 & 100K floppies, upgraded with 64K, Z80, CP/M and 1M 8″ dual floppy drive. Eventually a 5M HDD.
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@itsfoss you forgot 4GB on windows
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The distro barely matters. It's about the desktop environment - GNOME is heavier than Cinnamon.
@potatoes_fall @FiolaKais @itsfoss
But also, once you open more than a few dozen tabs in a browser, especially when they're browser apps such as social media, email clients, ticket tracking and so on, 4GB is just not a good time no matter what environment you're using.I think that signalling that reality by increasing the minimum recommended memory makes for a better user experience.
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@itsfoss you forgot 4GB on windows
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@itsfoss
This seems mildly exaggerated, in my opinion.
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@itsfoss 4GB on Debian.
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@itsfoss I don’t know. My old MacBook has 4GB of RAM and it still does web browsing slowly (running Raspberry Pi Desktop, based on Debian 11). According to system stats, the RAM is fine, but the processor is what’s being eaten up, so I’m looking for another browser (I originally ran Mozilla Firefox, but I’m having better luck with Chromium).
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@clutch_lever I think we all remember that fateful day when we got a hold of 4MB more and felt like we were crushing it. Don’t even get me started on the day I swapped out my 486 SX/25 for a DX2/50
