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>It seems 16GB of ram is the bare minimum these days.
You can run 8GB RAM comfortably for browsing and code/document editing, even on something like Windows 11. You only need more if you are running really resource intensive processes like gaming, video editing, AI generation, etc.

I'm running Debian+LXQT on an 8GB chinkbook and sit at 2.5GB used RAM even with a bunch of Chromium tabs and random applications open. I could have gone with 4GB RAM and been fine.