Quick Answer: Is 4Gb Enough for Linux?
Contents in Short: a Lot of Memory Lets You Do Everything in Your Browser or Use Electron Apps (And Other Absurdly Inefficient Solutions) Which Makes You More...
In short: a lot of memory lets you do everything in your browser or use electron apps (and other absurdly inefficient solutions) which makes you more compatible with the rest of our non ideal world, *particularly* when using Linux. So 4GB is definitely not enough.
Is 4GB enough for Ubuntu?
Ubuntu 18.04 runs well on 4GB. Unless you’re running a lot of CPU-intensive applications, you’ll be fine. … If you want to run non-trivial applications, you will need more than the minimum.
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Which Linux is best for 4GB RAM?
Sure. I run Linux Mint XFCE on my Thinkpad X230 with 4 GB of RAM just fine. Ubuntu may run a little slow depending on how bloated Gnome is.
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Top ten list of the fastest and most usable Linux distributions:
- Linux Lite.
- Linux Mint.
- Pop!_ OS.
- Netrunner OS.
- Fedora.
- Centos.
- OpenSuse.
- Instant OS.
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