Ubuntu now requires more RAM than Windows 11 (howtogeek.com)

Canonical’s Ubuntu 26.04 LTS update raises the distro’s minimum memory requirement to 6GB, along with a 2GHz dual-core CPU and 25GB of storage, up from the previous baseline. The change reflects modern multitasking and browser-heavy usage rather than Ubuntu becoming fundamentally more resource-hungry. The article notes that this narrows Ubuntu’s historical advantage over Windows 11’s 4GB minimum requirement, though Ubuntu will still install on lower-RAM systems with slower performance and lighter Ubuntu flavors remain options for older hardware.