On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 08:09:45PM +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
I think that those numbers (20GB+2GB) are quite reasonable for the stated purpose of "install and run successfully". I think that people know and understand that additional resources are required for additional things, and e.g. we don't need to tell them that they need extra 40GB if they have 40GB of photos. People also understand that if they have an 8 year old laptop with 2GB of RAM, it's not going to be as much fun as a new thing. But again, they know this without us explaining it.
For me, I think the baseline for what we should recommend is: feels responsive when doing everyday desktop tasks. For example, browsing the web with some medium number of tabs open on popular websites, and switching to a video call while that's still open.
I know "feels responsive" is pretty subjective, so, maybe "switching tabs should be < 0.1 second" (from https://www.nngroup.com/articles/response-times-3-important-limits/).