Besides the correct answer that Canonical sucks, I would argue that “efficiency” is not a selling point to get someone to use a desktop operating system.

Mainstream users and business organizations don’t really understand that concept and would prefer to see how the operating system enables their use cases and workflows.

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sam345 10 hours ago | parent [-]

This is changing. 8 GB will be more normal given ram shortages. See apples neo..

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Our_Benefactors 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

No, 8GB is still the bottom of the market, and the ram shortage is past its worst days already.

	▲	pacifika 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/
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		Chromebooks still start out at 4GB (example: https://www.acer.com/us-en/chromebooks/acer-chromebook-315-c...), and it's not like Google Chrome is lighter on RAM than Ubuntu's default browser.

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dangus 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Apple under-speccing their machines like they’ve been doing since the dawn of time is not some kind of indicator of any trends. You can buy $350 PC laptops that come with 12GB of RAM (example: https://www.staples.com/asus-vivobook-x1404-14-laptop-intel-...)

RAM shortages will be quite temporary. Making predictions based on individual component shortages has never been a winning strategy in the history of the industry. Next you’ll tell me that graphics cards will be impossible to get because of blockchain.