As long as you don't have to run a bloated electron app or anything similar at least... I have a relatively minimalist Linux environment by today's standards (

As long as you don't have to run a bloated electron app or anything similar at least... I have a relatively minimalist Linux environment by today's standards (I use Emacs, Firefox with about 10 tabs, the Signal client, a few terminals and a lightweight WM) and I already use 1.5GB of RAM at the moment. Firefox alone uses 408M of RES, the Signal app almost as much (!) while my Emacs with dozens of buffers uses "only" 130MB. How times change. The rest is used by all sorts of system processes and minor daemons. So basically I'd be fine with 1GB if it wasn't for the bloat that's modern web-based development. These days I'd say that 4GB is a more reasonable baseline.