Yeah I was going to go for 16G in 2018 but then didn't find a laptop I actually liked, everything was disappointing (turns out computers just don't get faster anymore, at least not per core, and some of the higher-end stuff didn't have Linux support at all, and not only WiFi drivers or so but actually unbootable or major issues on the latest kernel), so this was kind of an in-betweener while hoping to find something nicer in 3-5 years depending on how well I'd end up liking this one.