A lot (most) of it depends on the desktop environment you use. If you look for idle RAM usage compared by desktop environment you will see how drastic it is.
It’s not that linear. Some background services will cache more things in RAM if memory usage is low and release it if total usage goes above a threshold, for example.
It doesn’t. If you’re doing anything in a web browser you’re going to need that much RAM for a reasonable experience no matter what DE you’re using. Ubuntu are just trying to set more realistic expectations.
it won’t. ubuntu’s announcement pertains to the extra demands of gnome, their flagship release, and it’s default configuration.
mint doesn’t ship a gnome spin, and cinnamon, mate and xfce are lighter-weight… and mint is not dependent upon snaps, nor is it even configured oob with snap support enabled.
How will this affect Linux Mint, and should I make my move to Linux Mint: Debian Edition?
A lot (most) of it depends on the desktop environment you use. If you look for idle RAM usage compared by desktop environment you will see how drastic it is.
This kinda thing https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/linux-des-resource-usage-compared/70060
It’s not that linear. Some background services will cache more things in RAM if memory usage is low and release it if total usage goes above a threshold, for example.
It doesn’t. If you’re doing anything in a web browser you’re going to need that much RAM for a reasonable experience no matter what DE you’re using. Ubuntu are just trying to set more realistic expectations.
it won’t. ubuntu’s announcement pertains to the extra demands of gnome, their flagship release, and it’s default configuration.
mint doesn’t ship a gnome spin, and cinnamon, mate and xfce are lighter-weight… and mint is not dependent upon snaps, nor is it even configured oob with snap support enabled.