Post #3981381
2026-07-21 08:22 UTC
@gabrielesvelto@mas.to
It would really depend on the workload or what simultaneous tasks ornapps the users needs.
I would say that 8 GBytes wouldn't be enough for anything other than very basic tasks. Systems with without a discreet GPUs will take some of that for graphics memory.
Personally I would specify 16 GBytes as a better minimum. YMMV of course.
Perhaps Linux would be a better option than Windows 11 in these situations?
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@gabrielesvelto@mas.to 2026-07-21 08:30
@simonzerafa@infosec.exchange definitely. On my current machines I've got two different instances of Firefox open, each of which with several tabs, plus Thunderbird, a couple of terminals, Geany and a couple more utilities. That's a lot more than a regular users and I'm only using ~8.1 GiB worth of physical memory (again, with a 1080P display, a 4K one will increase memory consumption quite a bit).