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		polotics on July 11, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: QubesOS – A reasonably secure operating system 16GB of RAM is adequate for Qubes, in practice you end up running a handful of Xen VMs, with most of the VMs (vault, disposable,...) using little RAM.

mdp2021 on July 11, 2023 [–]

The system requirements are specified as:

minimum 6GB RAM; 16GB recommended

https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/system-requirements/

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