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Microsoft pushed 16GB RAM as must-have for Windows 11 for years, now sells an 8GB Surface Laptop for $1,299
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this post was submitted on 21 May 2026
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I have both Windows 11 and Linux mint on the same PC with 8 GB of RAM. I use it for making slides, research, watching videos, internet browsing and gaming (valorant, counter strike). Windows 11 isn't unusable at all with 8GB of RAM. It really depends on what your use case is, also depends on the amount of bloatware you have
booting the computer is the use case for the surface l.. lol, that's about all you're gonna do with 8gb