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Ubuntu quietly raises its minimum system requirements (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 67 points 7 months ago (4 children)

AFAIK perfomance and low resource usage has never been a main objective of this distro

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Ubuntu is bloated

    Debian requires at least 512MB of memory and 4GB of hard disk space for installation.

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  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Memory requirements does not mean that something is bloated.

    Windows XP required 64 MB of RAM. Does it mean Debian is bloated then?

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago

    2026 Debian Vs 2001 windows?
    Or 2001 Debian Vs 2001 windows?

    Cause 2001 Debian 2.2 was like 4MB ram, maybe 16 if you are really going for it!
    https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/projects/omnibook/boot-floppies/current/doc/ch-hardware-req.en.html

    So yeh, let's continue comparing apples and oranges.
    FreeRTOS is bloatware cause we were able to orbit a sphere that could reflect radio waves with a bunch of tubes and a handful of germanium.

    What the fuck is this "windows xp Vs modern Debian" shit?

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