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.

  • CompactFlax
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    8 days ago

    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?

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      8 days ago

      The server version requires 1.5 GB of RAM. That’s still rather bloated considering Debian only requires 512 MB.

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        8 days ago

        Well, that’s a lot more sensible but still rather fat. Good reminder not to install Ubuntu then.