why that change in system requirements (RAM)

[Rosika]

Hi all, 

my PC is a Lenovo-H520e, offering me 4 GB of RAM.

I´ve been happily using Linux Lite 6.2 on it for quite a while and I´m very satisfied with it.
Seems I will be able to use this version until April 2027. After that point in time there won´t be any security updates any longer and I will need to do a fresh install.

Now I found out the following:

Until (and including) 7.0 it says:

Code:

Minimum Recommended Specs:  768mb ram
Preferred Specs:   1024mb ram+         

That was pretty good. Good enough for me. But the specs suddently changed dramatically.
From 7.2 onwards it says:

Code:

Minimum Recommended Specs:  2GB ram
Preferred Specs:         4GB ram+   

Why that drastic change?  

For 7.6 "Minimum Specs" were dropped entirely. Just " Recommended Computer Specs: 4GB RAM"

Until now I can run waterfox browser, sylpheed, thunar and even a virtual machine (1 GB of virtual RAM assigned to it) at the same time without any hiccups.
Meaning the rest of my system getting along just fine with 3 GB of physical RAM during runtime of the VM.

Seems I won´t be able to do things like that anymore with the latest version of Linux Lite.

Such a shame.

Many greetings from Rosika 

[valtam]

Software evolves. More features, bug fixes etc etc There are many reasons. There is also the odd application that shrinks, some of the new software I've been working on has halved in size. I looked at the driver page for your PC, there are still drivers for XP which means you've had very good run to date.
Linux Lite will continue to be of use for you well into the next Series so don't worry.