[reilly3000]

> Linux's advantage is slowly shrinking

This is garbage writing. Linux’s advantages are numerous and growing. Ubuntu ≠ Linux. WRT RAM requirements, Win 11’s 4GB requirement isn’t viable for daily use and won’t represent any practical machine configuration that has the requisite TPM 2 module. On the other side, the Linux ecosystem offers a wide variety of minimal distributions that can run on ancient hardware.

Maybe I’m just grouchy today but I would flag this content if sloppy MS PR was a valid reason.

[leni536]

FWIW I find even KDE plasma on wayland perfectly viable on a 4 GiB budget notebook. Windows runs horribly on the same hardware.

[osigurdson]

Agree. I'm able to do development, run multiple containerized services (including Postgres, NATS, etc), have 10 browser tabs open, all on an 8 GiB laptop running Arch. I have a desktop with 64GiB as well but realized there is no point using it most of the time.

[jasomill]

Yes, and to the the extent that you can do the same thing with Windows, it tends to be unsupported (field stripping desktop Windows to its core) or not viable ([legally] using embedded or server versions of Windows as desktop OSes).

[listless]

I agree. And even on Ubuntu, the performance vs same specs on Windows is ridiculously better.

Apps are still a huge gap on Linux, but as an OS, I choose it every time over Windows and MacOS.