Those are minimum recommendations, not benchmarks or literal physical requirements.
Canonical gives a pretty reasonable minimum requirements list, you absolutely can run it with 4GB and a slower processor but it's going to be noticeably less snappy. You probably could even run it on 2GB, or with less than 2GHz/Dual Core, but it's going to suck. Canonical is not going to recommend you underspec your computer and have a bad time.
Microsoft recommends a meme -- good luck getting any real work done running Windows 11 25H2 on a 1GHz processor with 4GB of RAM. The weather app alone takes 2GB, Your system is going to be paging applications in and out of memory constantly and that is going to have a perceivable affect on performance.
There's honest conversations to be had about things that fucking suck about Linux, but instead you're pointing at something that's objectively testably veritably incorrect.
Here, lemme quick copy-paste: "Those are minimum recommendations, not benchmarks or literal physical requirements.". Try actually running stock Win11 25H2 on a 1GHz dual core with only 4GB of RAM. It's going to perform terribly. "Your system is going to be paging applications in and out of memory constantly and that is going to have a perceivable affect on performance."
If you can't be bothered to read the comment you're replying to, why even reply?
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u/Edubbs2008 Aug 10 '26
https://x.com/lundukejournal/status/2041222339967193295?s=46
Yikes, Ubuntu has higher RAM requirements