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I have an Asus N43L with 8GB RAM and Ubuntu 16.04 64bit installed. When I check my RAM consumption while idle it's consuming almost 1GB. Is that to be expected?

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Your RAM usage is normal for Ubuntu 16.04. You can use whatever desktop environment you prefer or install multiple desktop environments so that you can switch from one DE to another.

Main memory access time is in the order of nanoseconds, and hard disk drive access time is in the order of milliseconds. It's normal for Ubuntu 16.04 to use up to 1.5GB RAM at idle if your computer has plenty of RAM to avoid using swap space which is much slower than RAM.

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