Exactly. I am not a heavy user but occasionally I need to multitask a bit. I upgraded from 16 gb to 32 gb a while back because with 4 open workspaces, a browser in each one plus an email client, signal, a couple libreoffice apps open, and my notes app, it was having to use enough swap space that I noticed the performance hit. A small number of very light users might be ok with 8gb, but most will likely have issues.
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RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 3 hours ago8GB wouldn’t be one site, but between the OS & a couple of bloated sites 8GB is easy to hit.
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Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 2 minutes ago
I have 13 tabs open over two browsers (Safari and Firefox) and a text editor open on my Mac and I’m using 1.82GB
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