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Experienced users are known for being able to customize their install to be lightweight enough to function with modern tasks on old hardware. I myself have an install on an old 4gb MacBook Air that runs just as well as my server with 64 gb of RAM for the task load that I've deployed on it.
4gigs is a perfectly reasonable amount of RAM for word processing, web browsing, retro gaming, basic development (if you've got another rig to deploy compilations to), and a whole host of other applications.
4G ram with web browsing is asking for oom-killer to ruin your day. It is nonsense.
Downvoted because a comment went against the Linux circle-jerk? Shocked I say.
Try it yourself. Make a VM. 4G ram, no swap. Use it as your daily.
I used it until very recently. It's not that bad, unless you're one of those people who keeps dozens of opened tabs forever. My experience was pretty smooth, to be honest. I did some academic works on such a machine and often had several tabs opened at once, each with a different paper opened, along with google drive and stuff opened at the same time, and got no issues.
4G ram without swap doesn't last long.
If you are happy to use swap consistently and suffer the performance drop, that's fine.
Before I went Linux I started out with a 4G VM with no swap, and kept wondering why it was so unreliable. I almost gave up on Linux as stuff kept crashing. Then I saw the oom-killer logs.
8G was fine.