People keep saying under 16 GB of RAM and under isn't enough. Am I missing something? My current machine is an Intel N100 CPU with 8 GB of RAM and I never run into problems. 5-10 tabs, spreadsheets, text editor, and a terminal open at the same time. How is 16 GB of RAM not enough for a workstation?

@cinimodev
Someone recently posted a screenshot here of his browser crashing because he had several hundred tabs open.
...I'm guessing it's these types of people who can't get by with less than 16 GB 😉

@82mhz I can see how that would cause it. But, getting more RAM instead of keeping things tidy is like living in a messy house and the solution is to buy a bigger house and then tell everyone else the old house isn't big enough for anyone not just them.

@stevelord Exactly! I guess gaming would be the use case for at least dual channel RAM, but most of these people are saying they can't even do basic tasks with 8 GB.

@cinimodev @stevelord We have exactly this discussion internally rn about one of our users.

The most likely issues seem to be:
- Anti-virus software
- Note that this will mostly show up as I/O load, but ppl tend to misdiagnose the problem and keep buying RAM. Wrong diagnosis of other perf sinks/bottlenecks also likely result in RAM expansion (and placebo effect).
- Quantitly and quality of browser tabs and extensions, e.g. Slack is known to consume insane resources
- Other Windows bloatware