Sure I can.
You're complaining about needing 4gb of RAM on a virtualized platform in 2025, when 4gb of ram was common on a laptop (which is heavily space constrained) thirteen years ago.
It's a fair comparison.
When I spin up a VM for Linux, it's 4gb - that's the minimum today, because the virtualization platform will over-commit ram as it knows how to best utilize it.
I can run a Linux box in 2gb, but as soon as I start doing anything with it, more ram will be required.