mamasan2000 :
The thing I have never understood with MS OSes is that computers get a lot faster, have more RAM etc but MS manages to make their OS take all that performance and throw it in the toilet. OS should be just something handling hardware, not using half the computers resources for no good reason. Linux pulls maybe 400 megs of RAM. Why does Windows use 1.5 gigs+? Such bloatware.
Instead of making the OS leaner and computer faster, MS goes the other way, slowing down a new computer so you wont even notice that you upgraded your hardware.
Well, it sells more computers. Maybe.
-This post was written in Ubuntu Mate with Gnome.
I think you misunderstand Linux. Sure it has a lower starting RAM profile, but it will then fill your RAM with cache to speed things up, this is my 12GB desktop:
# free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 11969 11827 142 63 85 2949
-/+ buffers/cache: 8792 3177
Swap: 24580 1636 22944
According to that I have 12GB RAM and 142MB free, but I don't have problems as much of it is simply cached, which will disappear if need be. I also see you're a Luddite using Mate.

Why not use Arch?