That’s exactly how i described linux to one of my friend not so long ago, so true 
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4GB of RAM? 
. Wishful thinking. Can’t even do that in 10.
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Honestly you have to work for it on linux too these days, it’s not what it once was.
A friend of mine has 4gb on endeavour os and his machine is running bloody fast.
I have been running EOS KDE on an older ThinkCentre with 4gb for over a year now with no issue’s. It does what I need it to do which is mostly web browsing.
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Yeah, for actual “work” you probably need more than that, but just to install it you don’t even need that much. I think the requirement for Windows 11 is at least 8GB. Not to mention the stupid spy chip requirements.
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I’ve had endeavour using 10GB ram just after booting with no obvious process using it all, troubleshooting such things on linux in general is a nightmare.
I’ve also had it use under 1GB on bootup. Those were good days, but cases like the former seem to be more common these days than the latter.
Linux, endeavour or not, sometimes randomly uses a lot of ram for unexplained shit.
Let’s see right now if i try to tally it yeah?
> ps -eo rss,comm --sort=rss | awk '{ mb = int($1 / 1024); printf "%d MB\t%s\n", mb, $2 }' | sort -n
... (Like a good 50MB missing here)
10 MB systemd-resolve
10 MB udisksd
11 MB pipewire
12 MB systemd-journal
13 MB NetworkManager
13 MB systemd
14 MB electron
14 MB gvfsd-trash
14 MB upowerd
21 MB wireplumber
25 MB kitten
26 MB dirmngr
26 MB kitten
28 MB mako
30 MB mullvad-daemon
31 MB pipewire-pulse
44 MB electron
45 MB electron
46 MB xdg-desktop-por
53 MB electron
73 MB electron
91 MB electron
92 MB featherpad
148 MB kitty
154 MB electron
175 MB Xwayland
179 MB electron
187 MB pcmanfm-qt
212 MB kitty
236 MB electron
241 MB Hyprland
289 MB waybar
> free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 60Gi 7,2Gi 17Gi 343Mi 37Gi 53Gi
Swap: 60Gi 706Mi 59Gi
The RSS should generously describe the memory usage, (e.g. shared memory is duplicated and such and so forth)
I’m seeing a bit under 2.5GB of RAM usage accounted for here by PS, but I’m using 7.2GB RAM, where are these other almost 5GB of RAM going hmm?
This is the standard linux experience for me when it comes to RAM these days, even if I dig deeper, the kernel is using somewhere in the range of 500mb, tmpfs in the range of 300mb (I don’t think it’s actually counted towards used ram tho), VM ram usage (probably for java and python and such) is 1.7GB,
Which means that yes, even without running anything particularly heavy (as you can see) I am now using almost 5GB of RAM which is relatively accounted for (remember rss total is gonna be bigger than the actual ram use) with quite a bit over 2GB of RAM vanishing into thin air.
So yes, using linux today with 4GB of RAM might take more doing than expected, you will definitely be getting a lot of use out of that swap partition with 4GB RAM at least.
I always have enough ram that this is a non-issue for me, but well, ram prices are getitng kinda high tho.
that’s about all I’ve ever scavenged afa desktops. those old ibm (lenovo) thinkcentres were built to last and perform.
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had a leg to stand on here…. 
Maybe that is one of the reasons why Linux has fewer viruses?
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Hold on just a minute.
You have 60 Gigs of RAM? 60? What do you do?
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