Not really, in my opinion. If you do go with 8GB, do create a big enough swap partition and I can’t recommend zram enough! Unfortunately on high contention lin

Not really, in my opinion. If you do go with 8GB, do create a big enough swap partition and I can’t recommend zram enough! Unfortunately on high contention linux is still prone to trashing memory, basically writing out a page to swap only to read it back into memory, evicting other pages. This was supposedly solved for HDDs, but it is still a problem with SSDs to the point where I had a completely stuck system, only reacting to REISUB. I did try to experiment with userspace OOMKillers, but they are no real solutions, and I think it is safe to bet that only larger memory requirements await us in the future. 8GB really is not enough today, not even for regular use let alone dev work.