8GB RAM is not enough in 2020

I did an experiment. I bought a mid-range laptop with 8GB RAM.

I moved from Ubuntu to Debian in order to make sure I am not using a bloated distro. I made the swap partition to be 8GB, non-encrypted. (I used to use swap file on an encrypted partition which made Gnome freezing for a second every time when the information from the swap file was accessed).

But 8GB is simply not enough.

By default Debian starts with ~800MB usage of RAM. Which is amazing. But those 8GB are getting filled up very quickly when you start all those apps at the same time:

• Skype for linux (I am still using skype)
  
• Slack
• Firefox with not more than 20 tabs
• Spotify

So most of the time you are living on the swap. Everything works but it feels like living on the edge.

So I put 16GB and the world is much more different. There is plenty of air to breath now.