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you don't need more 4GB of RAM (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[โ€“] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

In 2008 ~~a lot of~~ most software was still 32 bit, you couldn't use more than 4GiB per process. In that sense anything more than that was overkill unless you used a lot of programs at the same time and your OS supported physical address extension (PAE).

[โ€“] bitwaba@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

All windows and Linux versions I've run since 2008 supported 64 bit. The games I was running might not have, but I can't really be held responsible for what they want to write. Also, multitasking has always been a thing, and chrome came out in 2008 as well, so the single task 4GB limitations hasn't really been an issue for a while as far as gaming/regular desktop usage goes(unless, again, the applications you're running aren't written to support 64bit/more than 4GB, which you can't really be held responsible for.)