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Besides the correct answer that Canonical sucks, I would argue that “efficiency” is not a selling point to get someone to use a desktop operating system.

Mainstream users and business organizations don’t really understand that concept and would prefer to see how the operating system enables their use cases and workflows.

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This is changing. 8 GB will be more normal given ram shortages. See apples neo..

Apple under-speccing their machines like they’ve been doing since the dawn of time is not some kind of indicator of any trends. You can buy $350 PC laptops that come with 12GB of RAM (example: https://www.staples.com/asus-vivobook-x1404-14-laptop-intel-...)

RAM shortages will be quite temporary. Making predictions based on individual component shortages has never been a winning strategy in the history of the industry. Next you’ll tell me that graphics cards will be impossible to get because of blockchain.

No, 8GB is still the bottom of the market, and the ram shortage is past its worst days already.

Chromebooks still start out at 4GB (example: https://www.acer.com/us-en/chromebooks/acer-chromebook-315-c...), and it's not like Google Chrome is lighter on RAM than Ubuntu's default browser.

https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/

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