does lubuntu consume less RAM or I am missing something?

Why wouldn't it? That's kinda the point of a system intended to be lite.

>>54696568
Whoa, it sure has been awhile since I have seen XP.

I wonder how 7 and 10 stack up on average?

I remember I stopped using firefox back in the day on XP because it quite often took 2gb of ram browsing the web with 2 or 3 tabs.

available ram something something immediately freed up when needed something something

>>54696568
Different and more effective RAM management.
XP was just bloaty.
uBlock Origin vs ABP makes a somewhat noticeable difference.

>>54696676
>XP was just bloaty.
>190mb ram needed to run it

>>54696923
You can just say Windows

>>54696923
The average ram most people had back then was 256

>>54696987
This. I explicitly remember buying 128 MB of ram when upgrading from 98 because the games that worked perfectly on 98 stopped due to lack of ram.

Missing a brain.