I’m looking to purchase Qubes Certified Hardware from Nitrokey. I’m wondering how much RAM I will need to run qubes-whonix smoothly. The documentation says a minimum of 6 and ideally 16. Is 16 GB enough or should I pay for more RAM for it to run well? I’m familiar with virtualization on other platforms but not linux and my philosophy is the more RAM the better. But Linux to my understanding it very fast and might be fine with just 16 GB. What are the communities thoughts?
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Usually yes (for general browsing, computing, word processor, image editing, …).
Yes. Unless you are worried about battery life/electricity consumption. As a rule of thumb, each memory module could consume around 5W (refer to its datasheet).
Yes
Users have different needs. Some might need to run multiple instances of Microsoft Windows guests. Those would need a lot of memory. Having a definitive answer would be highly unlikely.
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If you are using only Qubes-Whonix, 16 GB of RAM is enough.
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