Someone actually tried doing that across various Linux desktop distros a while ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/5kdq92/linux_distros_ram_consumption

Someone actually tried doing that across various Linux desktop distros a while ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/5kdq92/linux_distros_ram_consumption_9_distros_compared/ https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/5kdq92/linux_distros... Also there was another post on Reddit 2 years ago, where Ubuntu was used as the base OS: https://www.reddit.com/r/xfce/comments/kb0d87/i_compared_the_ram_use_of_15_desktop_environments/ https://www.reddit.com/r/xfce/comments/kb0d87/i_compared_the... Curiously, the average values for memory usage were pretty close, though more information about the methodology would be nice.