6GB or 8GB RAM Fairphone 5 needed to run 24.04-1.x comfortably?
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The 6GB RAM version of Fairphone 5 is often better priced than the 8GB RAM version. Therefore, a question to those of you who have experience with Fairphone 6GB and 8GB RAM versions:
- Is the 6GB RAM with 128GB storage Fairphone 5 always enough to run noble 24.04-1.x comfortably?
- In which case would you really need 8GB RAM?
The typical use case would be:
- Ubuntu Touch native apps,
- waydroid banking apps with authentication that actually work,
- waydroid signal,
- waydroid whatsapp,
- waydroid organic maps,
Desktop mode via USB-C display port libertine containers running:
- LibreOffice Writer and Calc with scripting,
- gimp,
- inkscape,
- thunderbird or evolution email,
- firefox with addons,
- emacs,
- occasional compiling with gcc, make, cmake,
- python3 scripting,
- bash scripting,
- ollama with tinyllama if it is possible at all.
This question may possibly also apply to the Fairphone 4 6GB RAM version which still seems to be available in some places.
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@mango If you are going to be running desktop apps, then the more RAM the better. Waydroid would also benefit from more RAM.
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@mango To answer the question yes you can run 24.04 comfortably with the 6GB/128GB, I am currently doing this.
However, you expand on this and explain your usage I would lean towards the bigger device.Currently I have 43.8GB of free space storage and ~2.6GB memory free. However my usage is very different to what you are looking for.
I don't use Android apps at all, only native. I don't use Libertine much at all either. I do have lots of my own music and have a lot of offline maps downloaded which you may not.Hopefully this gives you perspective from someone daily using the device.
