Category Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Windows 11 Processor (CPU) Dual-core 2 GHz or faster processor 1 GHz or faster, 2+ cores Memory (RAM) 6 GB minimum 4 GB minimum Storage 25 GB free disk space 64 GB or larger storage device Architecture 64-bit only 64-bit only Security Hardware No TPM requirement TPM 2.0 required That laughably understates the RAM required for Windows to be useful.
Please change title, we don’t want clickbait here
Yeah, sure. Why don’t you actually try running Windows 11 with 4GB of RAM.
I did once. And I’m still waiting for start menu to load.
Biggest thing that I think is pretty badly phrased… is linux “system requirements”. considering in the windows world if you try and install with less than the required ram… the installer will usually stop you.
While in ubuntu they may say “requirement” but it’s a recomendation. You can install 26 into a VM with 1 GB of ram… and it will run. Really nothing in this version of ubuntu is more resource hungry than the previous version. So in short them boosting the number is just saying “if you use a typical amount of tabs open in your browser, 6gb ram is kind of needed”.
So yeah I’d say most likely the fair way to put it is, windows 11 will let you install on 4gb of ram… but most would say it’s very unusable even at a basic level with that, you can run ubuntu with that… it will probably not be a great experience, but not as bad as windows until you start running into large web apps or tons of tabs.
Uhm fake? And they even omitted system requirements from Microsoft’s list?!
“a big jump from 4GB to 6GB.”
Lol.
