You’ll need at least 6GB of RAM to run Ubuntu 26.04 LTS comfortably, as the upcoming version of the distro raises its minimum memory requirement for the first time since 2019.
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- passenger@sopuli.xyzEnglish2 hours
No-one commenting seems to have read the article. They are raising the recommended specs due to desktop software and web sites being more resource intensive.
Edit: to add, I would not recommend 6GB RAM for desktop use to anyone. I would say the very minimum is 8GB nowadays.
1 hourI would say the very minimum is 8GB nowadays.
I had to check. I do have 8GB, wohoo!
- nyan@lemmy.cafeEnglish1 hour
Depends on what you’re doing. If you’re okay with very limited Web use, even 2GB is viable (or was about a year ago when I retired that machine). More normal levels of Web use, you’re going to need more RAM. Not sure about GPU-constrained loads like 3D modeling, as I never tried them on that machine. But other than those and some games, nothing on Linux should require even 8GB. Server systems can make do with even less.
- vermaterc@lemmy.mlEnglish4 hours
AFAIK perfomance and low resource usage has never been a main objective of this distro
Ubuntu is bloated
Debian requires at least 512MB of memory and 4GB of hard disk space for installation.
- vermaterc@lemmy.mlEnglish3 hours
Memory requirements does not mean that something is bloated.
Windows XP required 64 MB of RAM. Does it mean Debian is bloated then?
I have an idea of how they could reduce the fish requirements.
How about using shared libraries instead of bundling everything in every snap all the times?
Amazingly it reduces RAM usage as well.
- AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish2 hours
You mean you don’t like having three screens worth of saquashfs entries flash past when you try to run mount?
- CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.worldEnglish3 hours
Thats when the person to your right hands you a slobbery spliff during puff-puff-pass.
- CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.worldEnglish3 hours
No, sorry, I got the spelling wrong. It slobluntu. My mistake. A portmanteau of slobbery blunt to you.
- 3 hours
I’m not up on the flavours of Ubuntu, but I assume the LTS version is more server oriented and what in the name of whatever you hold holy is there that needs 6 GB to boot an OS? Have they ported bash to electron?
- cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish3 hours
The server version requires 1.5 GB of RAM. That’s still rather bloated considering Debian only requires 512 MB.
- 2 hours
Well, that’s a lot more sensible but still rather fat. Good reminder not to install Ubuntu then.
- tirateimas@lemmy.ptEnglish3 hours
I guess it was inevitable (for multiple reasons). Fortunately, there are lighter flavors of Ubuntu. For the more experienced unwilling to spend their resources this way, there are always other distros.
- 55 minutes
Read the article.
Raising the recommended RAM requirements is not because the Resolute Raccoon requires more resources than before, not directly – this is not a 2GB RAM jump solely to load the OS and nothing else.
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.
