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They’re raising it because of RAM needs of browsers and GNOME.
If you’re a shell nerd like me, you’ll still be fine running it on a potato.
A full potato? Lol, when I was young I had nothing but a french fry, scavenged from a McDonald's bin.
You had McDonalds? That was just a farm in my day. Eee-eye-eee-eye-oh!
Nah, my village just had the bin
It's an illuminating experience to go to a store with Apple computers with 8GB of RAM on display, and browse to a RAM-heavy unoptimized website like YouTube or even Reddit now.
Open a few tabs.
Open a dozen.
You'd be surprised what a decently coded OS can pull off without compromising on the visuals.
I always thought Gnome 3 was bloated.
Gnome 3 was a fad anyway
I switched to Mate for a while at the time, but then realised I liked XFCE even more.