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sealed. Today many desktop and laptop systems—in the past easily upgraded

by a good tech—are sealed, making upgrades impossible. If you get a sealed

system, don’t scrimp on the RAM at the time of purchase!

Linux RAM requirements and recommendations depend entirely on which

distribution (distro) is being used. The mainstream distros, like Ubuntu, have

requirements similar to Windows and macOS. But many distros get by on

very minimal system requirements.

Determining Current RAM Capacity

Before you go get RAM, you obviously need to know how much RAM you

currently have in your PC. Windows displays this amount in the System

Control Panel applet (see Figure 4-28). You can also access the screen with

the WINDOWS-PAUSE/BREAK keystroke combination on standard keyboards.

Figure 4-28 Mike’s Windows 10 system only has 8 GB of RAM.

Windows also includes the handy Performance tab in the Task Manager

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