i had to upgrade my pc from 6gb to 16gb a few years ago because gnome kept stealing all of my ram and then my system would lock up once it was full
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never had issues with gnome on my laptop with 4 gbs of ddr3, actually it's pretty smooth even while running from an 8 year old 5200rpm hdd, even with all the animations and stuff enabled.
freezes a bit while loading icons in the app menu for the first time after boot but it's really usable once everything gets cached to ram.
Your experience matches mine more than op's. In fact I have a super shitty old laptop running gnome on fedora with a 32gb drive and I think 4 GB of RAM, maybe less, and it still sounds better than the experience they're claiming to have had with 6 gb ram.
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I ran with 8gb ram for 7 years because zram would shove my swap into what little ram I had available and it actually worked well enough that I didn't feel like upgrading until this year lol.
Always see my system chilling at 5 or 6 gb
Big dawg here running a supercomputer with 4 gigs of RAM. /s
General rule of thumb with building systems - "you never know..." so better safe than sorry.
Yeah, but when it comes to RAM and Storage, the other golden rule is that the longer you delay your upgrade the cheaper it will be (assuming you'll even need it) or the more you can get for the same money.
So there are two competing pulls in this.
I actually downgraded my Laptop from 16 to 8 gig DDR3L and did not spot a difference
I was working on an app that needed to run on windows. Between chrome and virtual box, i absolutely had to upgrade to more than 16G
Virtual box is not a type I hypervisor. If you are looking for better performance you could try KVM
As somebody with a System76 laptop, I'm feeling personally attacked.