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  • Since what everyone else has suggested hasn’t worked, there’s 3 more things to test:

    1. Update your BIOS. Depending on the age difference between your CPU and your MOBO, the BIOS might not be configured correctly for your CPU and thus half your RAM is unable to be addressed.

    2. Test your RAM sticks and memory slots individually. Put your sticks in the primary channel (per your MOBO specs) one at a time and reboot to see if they’re actually working. Then try moving them around to see if the issue is a bad slot, rather than a bad stick.

    3. Are you sure you’re not running a 32-bit OS? You’d be capped at 4GB system memory on 32-bit Windows, for example, no matter how much physical RAM you have.






  • Pop!_OS.

    I have tried many Linux distros since I finally abandoned Windows for good, but in spite of the fact that I prefer Fedora over the other kernels, Pop!_OS as a distro, along with Pop Shell, is just everything I’ve ever wanted in an OS and all else just feels inferior.

    I’m a dev, though, so it would make sense that an OS made by devs for devs would be my cuppa.

    Most users won’t need 90% of what I, specifically, love about the OS, but it’s also the first distro I’ve found where everything I want to use just works out of the box without spending hours troubleshooting, and that’s not nothing.