• Psythik@lemmy.world
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      13 hours ago

      Yeah seriously, why is this even a discussion. 32GB is the bare minimum acceptable these days, regardless of which desktop OS you’re using.

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        9 hours ago

        I guess I’ve been living in lala land or something because I’ve been perfectly happy with half of that.

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        10 hours ago

        People run Linux with full plasma desktop with like 8 gb ram. It’s the browser that eats up several gb from that, not the desktop. Desktop alone is probably 4 gb max.

        But sure, depending on what else you run, you want more memory. But if windows recommends 32 gb just to run the system, that’s crazy.

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          11 hours ago

          So you’re saying that upgrading my tower to 128 GB was overkill? I suppose I could sell one of the ram sets now for probably double what I paid for all 4 sticks in 2023