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why that change in system requirements (RAM) - Rosika - 12-31-2025
Hi all,
my PC is a Lenovo-H520e, offering me 4 GB of RAM.
I´ve been happily using Linux Lite 6.2 on it for quite a while and I´m very satisfied with it.
Seems I will be able to use this version until April 2027. After that point in time there won´t be any security updates any longer and I will need to do a fresh install.
Now I found out the following:
Until (and including) 7.0 it says:
Code:
Minimum Recommended Specs: 768mb ram
Preferred Specs: 1024mb ram+ That was pretty good. Good enough for me. But the specs suddently changed dramatically.
From 7.2 onwards it says:
Code:
Minimum Recommended Specs: 2GB ram
Preferred Specs: 4GB ram+ Why that drastic change?
For 7.6 "Minimum Specs" were dropped entirely. Just " Recommended Computer Specs: 4GB RAM"
Until now I can run waterfox browser, sylpheed, thunar and even a virtual machine (1 GB of virtual RAM assigned to it) at the same time without any hiccups.
Meaning the rest of my system getting along just fine with 3 GB of physical RAM during runtime of the VM.
Seems I won´t be able to do things like that anymore with the latest version of Linux Lite.
Such a shame.
Many greetings from Rosika