Grench
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Yes I compare x86-64 and armhf. You're right, that the memory footprint might be different on these architectures. But I think it will be similar...
Screen size and using another Desktop-Environment might give me back 300MB of RAM. Java-Development is not really affected by this. The running Java-Programm has no IDE.
I will also be happy 2GB but if possible I would prefer the 4GB version for stated reasons.
I have 48GB of RAM on my home desktop computer running Debian Stretch. It is fairly common for it to show 30-40GB RAM in use during simple file copies (running backups for example). RAM used on a modern Linux or Windows desktop does NOT equal the RAM required for the applications running. Both use any and all available RAM for caching - storage included.
I am not discounting that your 64bit Linux desktop is using that much RAM during the operations you are performing.
However, if you strip the system down to 32bit & 2GB, then what does it do? Does it still run? Is it fluid enough to use?