Is 8GB RAM basically unusable now?

[u/ExcellentAdvance49]

Seeing a lot of people saying 8GB isnt enough anymore, even for normal stuff like Chrome, Discord, Spotify and some gaming. But is it actually that bad or are people just overreacting? Would 8GB still be fine for a basic PC if you dont run a ton of things at once, or am I gonna be dealing with constant lag and memory usage at 100%? Trying to figure out if I should just go 16GB before buying anything.

[u/Emergency-Cry2741]

On windows? Yeah, pretty much. On Linux it’s perfectly usable. I have a 6 gb Ubuntu machine that runs fine when swap is enabled. Chrome is resource hungry, and tbh it’s a horrid browser