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Sure I can.
You're complaining about needing 4gb of RAM on a virtualized platform in 2025, when 4gb of ram was common on a laptop (which is heavily space constrained) thirteen years ago.
It's a fair comparison.
When I spin up a VM for Linux, it's 4gb - that's the minimum today, because the virtualization platform will over-commit ram as it knows how to best utilize it.
I can run a Linux box in 2gb, but as soon as I start doing anything with it, more ram will be required.
Laptops usually run desktop environments which are quite resources intensive. You can easily run some Docker services on 2GB. The debian VM that natively runs my nginx reverse proxy has 512 MB RAM and works perfectly fine.
I'm running Urbackup in a Dietpi VM, with 256Mb RAM. Works fine.
Urbackup server is running about 70Mb RAM idle.
I could probably go down to 128Mb for the whole VM, but that's is pointless and it might start to struggle during a backup session.