Installing 21.04

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 18:33:24 +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
>8GB is a small amount of RAM

I'm running Arch Linux with openbox and Ubuntu with openbox, but also
live media with GNOME, Mate, Xfce4. I care about real-time audio. I can
build almost everything in tmpfs. It is probably a small amount, but
doesn't cause issues for my kind of computer usage.

# hwinfo --mem | grep Size 
  Memory Size: 7 GB + 512 MB
# df -h /tmp
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs           3.9G  6.6M  3.9G   1% /tmp

I needed to upgrade from 4 GiB to more of RAM, actually I chose 8 GiB,
when I was on the rocks. The plan was to upgrade to more than 8 GiB
soon or later, but I canceled this plan, since I don't need it. I could
easily pay for more RAM today. The only pitfall with this amount of RAM
is, that I can't build some software in tmpfs, but building on the SSDs
isn't noticeable slower.

My iPad Pro (3rd generation) just has got 6 GB RAM and is used for
things, such as NLVE on a more or less professional level. If you want
to do more or less amateurish video editing on Linux, you
probably already need way more than 8 GiB of RAM.