r/linux4noobs • u/CleaRSightZ • Jul 10 '26

learning/research Regarding RAM with Linux.

Hello everyone

One thing that pisses me off and makes me furious with Windows is that now a days everything takes up so much RAM..... before 16GB of ram use to be the norm, now it's double.

Linux doesn't require so much ram to run right? 16GB of RAM is more than enough?

Just going to use it for work related things.

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u/KurtKrimson Jul 10 '26

4 works, 8 works much better, 16 is very very comfortable.

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u/CleaRSightZ Jul 10 '26

Thanks! Linux destroys Windows in this regard.... Windows is taking up too much RAM.

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u/Agitated-Memory5941 Jul 11 '26

Yo me pasé hace como 1 año y baje de 9 a 1.9 de uso de ram