@nate yeah I'm using Win10 Pro with mine but I think the main reason it's not giving issues is because I have a 4 physical core CPU that can expand it to 8 virtual cores.

16GB RAM on one stick or even two wouldn't perform as well, and you're really reliant on having an OS that can do clever stuff with the RAM and cores it has. I don't think Win10 would've played nice with a different CPU setup.

About the only thing that chokes it up is if I'm running 4 open Visual Studio programs and debugging a few of them while having browsers and notetaking stuff open alongside a few VMs as well as MS Teams, and VS (and Teams) is an everything hog so that's expected on pretty much every setup unless you've finetuned every step of hardware to OS for it.

(I should be clear my setup is for "computer science student turned professional developer, as well as gaming, as well as digital art". So it needs to handle a lot of stuff at once, and once upon a time I needed to be able to transport it everywhere, but I don't run incredibly intensive programs a lot like a 3D artist or machine learning specialist might - or even audio techs. I somehow lucked out with my choices 10 years ago even though my understanding of how CPUs worked and OSs was, and still kinda is, pretty mid.)

Bleh that's a lot of words to say mainly that RAM might not be your main bottleneck, but cores and how OS and CPU do swapping.